The Harry Potter author described several transgender women as men in a series of social media posts.

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.

  • iLoveFishing@lemmy.today
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    6 months ago

    That is not holocaust denial. She did not deny the holocaust happened or that they were not victims. You are being purposely obtuse.

      • iLoveFishing@lemmy.today
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        6 months ago

        You are comparing it to something that it is not. She is not saying that 1 million people died in the holocaust. Are you really denying that people can be of Jewish descent? Stop being a bigot

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          I didn’t deny people can be anything, although I have no idea what “of Jewish descent” is supposed to mean. Does it mean you had many ancestors who died in the Holocaust or does it mean you had a Jewish great-grandmother from Schenectady, NY?

          And I know what part of the Holocaust she’s denying. The part that involves transgender people. You also appear to be denying it and hiding behind your “of Jewish descent” claim.

          • iLoveFishing@lemmy.today
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            6 months ago

            You’re now resorting to personal attacks. Is this all you do on this website? Do you have any friends in real life?

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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              6 months ago

              It’s strange to complain about someone resorting to personal attacks and then making a personal attack in the same post.

              I’d explain to you about why I’m here right now, but I doubt you’d read it since you wouldn’t read a link I posted. And you’d just say it wasn’t true if I did.

              But feel free to look me up in Casual Conversations and see the hell I’ve been going through since January of 2023 if you like. Maybe it will make you laugh.

              • iLoveFishing@lemmy.today
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                6 months ago

                I wish you the best on your health issues. I knew someone who had very similar issues and after a few years it went away luckily.

                I hope you can understand that some people are not left wing. That doesn’t make them bad people.

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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                  6 months ago

                  Do you wish me the best? Because you sure didn’t one post ago.

                  I hope you can understand that some people are not left wing. That doesn’t make them bad people.

                  What the fuck does this have to do with a single thing I have said in this entire conversation?