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JK Rowling has challenged Scotland’s new hate crime law in a series of social media posts - inviting police to arrest her if they believe she has committed an offence.
The Harry Potter author, who lives in Edinburgh, described several transgender women as men, including convicted prisoners, trans activists and other public figures.
She said “freedom of speech and belief” was at an end if accurate description of biological sex was outlawed.
Earlier, Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf said the new law would deal with a “rising tide of hatred”.
The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 creates a new crime of “stirring up hatred” relating to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex.
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Ms Rowling, who has long been a critic of some trans activism, posted on X on the day the new legislation came into force.
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Sorry, you think holocaust denial counts as “criticism?”
Would it also be “criticism” if you denied that the Nazis killed millions of Jews?
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https://www.salon.com/2024/03/15/jk-rowling-trans-nazis-holocaust-denial/
I’m guessing you will excuse her as “just asking questions.”
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If only that article quoted her in it more than once…
I don’t really have to hold your hand and copy and paste the quotes from the article, do I? It’s not a very long article.
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I do. I gave you a link with direct quotes from her. Again, do I really need to copy and paste them here? Are you really unable to just read a short article that they’re in? I mean, I’ll paste them if you are actually that lazy. Are you really that lazy?
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