J.K. Rowling Dares Scottish Police to Arrest Her for Hate Crime
On Monday, Scotland enacted a new anti-hate crime law designed to crack down on âstirring up hatredâ related to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity, or intersex identity. And Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling doesnât appear to be happy about it.
Rowling took to X Monday morning for a lengthy screed in which she denounced the law, openly misgendered several trans people, and then dared Scottish authorities to arrest her.
âScottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls,â Rowling posted.
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Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.
In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing theirâŚâ J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 1, 2024
Violating the newly enacted Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act comes with a maximum penalty of a seven-year prison sentence. On BBC Radio 4 on Monday, Scottish minister for victims and community safety Siobhian Brown explained that misgendering someone online âwould be a police matter for them to assess what happens. It could be reported and it could be investigatedâwhether or not the police would think it was criminal is up to Police Scotland.â
Rowling, whoâs long made her transphobic beliefs abundantly clear, including âconcernsâ about trans women using public restrooms, expressed outrage that Scotlandâs new legislation does not include women as a protected characteristic.
âThe re-definition of âwomanâ to include every man who declares himself one has already had serious consequences for womenâs and girlsâ rights and safety in Scotland, with the strongest impact felt, as ever, by the most vulnerable, including female prisoners and rape survivors,â Rowling continued in her post on X.
âIf what Iâve written here qualifies as an offense under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment,â she added.
This isnât the first time Rowling has made such a statement. Last October, the author declared on X that she would âhappilyâ be imprisoned if a proposed Labour law were implemented that classifies misgendering people as an aggravated offense. âIâll happily do two years if the alternative is compelled speech and forced denial of the reality and importance of sex,â she said at the time. âBring on the court case, I say.â
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