J.K. Rowling dares cops to arrest her over hate crime law

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J.K. Rowling is testing out Scotland’s new hate crime law, which could see people arrested for using a transgender person’s wrong pronouns.

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The Harry Potter author, who lives in Edinburgh, challenged the new law in a series of posts on social media, inviting authorities to come and “arrest” her if they believe she has committed an offence.

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In the posts, Rowling sarcastically celebrated several transgender women before arguing that “freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland” if the accurate description of biological sex is “deemed criminal.”

Among those Rowling called out were trans activist Beth Douglas, whom she called a “darling of prominent Scottish politicians,” trans athlete Guilia Valentino who “wanted to play on the women’s team ‘because of sisterhood, validation and political visibility,’” and of course, her arch-nemesis TV broadcaster India Willoughby.

The writer also made mention of a handful of convicted criminals.

Rowling went on to say she was “kidding” about the people she posted about, saying they “aren’t women at all, but men, every last one of them.”

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The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 added a new crime of “stirring up hatred” relating to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex.

The law does not protect women as a group from hatred, but the Scottish government is expected to include it later in a separate misogyny law, the Daily Mail reported.

Rowling has long been a critic of transgender activism, and was fired up on the day the new legislation came into effect.

“Scottish 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,” she wrote on X.

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“It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assault on women’s and girls’ rights, unless we are allowed to call a man a man,” Rowling continued.

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“Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.”

Some of the criminal cases she highlighted included “lovely Scottish lass and convicted double rapist” Isla Bryson and “Scottish woman and butcher Amy George” who abducted and sexually abused an 11-year-old girl.

“I’m currently out of the country, but if what I’ve written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.”

The maximum penalty under the new act is seven years behind bars.

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