As both John and I wrote about, J.K. Rowling challenged the Scottish government to prosecute her for “misgendering” transgender criminals in a long thread on Twitter yesterday. Under the new Hate Speech law, which criminalizes certain speech aimed at a wide range of protected classes, “misgendering” is an offense that can get you in trouble. […]
JK Rowling is challenging the Scottish police to arrest her. Her crime? Hate speech is now illegal in Scotland after a new law went into effect. And her Twitter thread calling men claiming to be women “men” is a clear violation of that law. Clear. Unambiguous. Not even a shadow of a doubt. She broke […]
Today a new law went into effect in Scotland. It’s called the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act and the law appears to make it a crime to insult someone from a protected group. Here’s what the law actually says: Offences of stirring up hatred (1) A person commits an offence if— (a) the […]
No doubt there is wiggle room for interpretation, but the accusation that the Scottish Police just slandered JK Rowling and suggested she wants to gas people who identify as transgender has quite a bit of merit. This is an obscenity. In a sane world, everyone involved in this would be fired tonight. https://t.co/N5WcBkYSoG — Gareth […]
On Sunday, author JK Rowling offered a lengthy response to an argument she saw on X. The argument was basically saying there was no point in trying to keep trans women out of women’s spaces because they would just go in anyway. We don’t leave our doors and windows wide open when we go out […]
Metaphorically, J.K. Rowling has been taking it on the chin for expressing her “gender-critical” views. She is the target of harassment; the actors who made their livings off her work have turned their back on her, and even librarians have called her work “unsafe.” The odd thing is, Rowling isn’t criticizing transgenderism, as so many […]
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