It was no April Fool’s joke.

Harry Potter author-turned culture warrior J.K. Rowling kicked off the month with an 11-tweet social media thread in which she argued 10 transgender women were men — and dared Scottish police to arrest her.

Rowling’s intervention came as a controversial new Scottish government law, aimed at protecting minority groups from hate crimes, took effect. And it landed amid a fierce debate over both the legal status of transgender people in Scotland and over what actually constitutes a hate crime.

Already the law has generated far more international buzz than is normal for legislation passed by a small nation’s devolved parliament.

  • @afraid_of_zombies
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    57 months ago

    Right I was talking about what most likely will happen while you were offering advice which is where you describe what you want to happen.

    If people I don’t agree with on much agree with X when I get around to learning about X I will very likely not agree.

    I agree it is a good advice