The once-beloved children’s author is working herself up over Scotland’s new bias law.

The once-beloved children’s author is working herself up over Scotland’s new bias law.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has jumped to defend J.K. Rowling, who is once again using her one wild and precious life to post obsessively about transgender women instead of doing literally anything else with her hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Harry Potter author took to X, formerly Twitter, on April 1 to share her thoughts on Scotland’s new Hate Crime Act, which went into effect the same day. The law criminalizes “stirring up hatred” related to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, trans identity, or being intersex, as the BBC reported. “Stirring up hatred” is further defined as communicating or behaving in a way “that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive” against a protected group. The offense is punishable by imprisonment of up to seven years, a fine, or both.

In response to the legislation, Rowling posted a long thread naming several prominent trans women in the U.K., including Mridul Wadhwa, the CEO of the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, and activist Munroe Bergdorf. Since it was April Fool’s day, Rowling decided to commemorate it by sarcastically affirming the womanhood of all the people she named in her thread. In the same breath that she said that a convicted child predator was “rightly sent to a women’s prison,” she also called out a number of trans women making anodyne comments about inclusion, seemingly implying that trans identity is inherently predatory.

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          • soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            69·
            3 months ago

            Quote exactly some hate speech by her which is deserving of being locked up and link sources

            Not stuff which is considered offensive, but quotes which genuinely deserve jail time

            A proportionate response is banning of her social media accounts and any of her products which create revenue, not FUCKING JAIL.

            So please, quote away.

            • jak@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              83·
              3 months ago

              if

              That’s a quote from my comment that you replied to.

              • soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                48·
                3 months ago

                Holy shit really? You’re going with that?

                You just turned the conversation on its head and then accused me of doing the same? hypocritical behaviour

                Wait you think arresting her is proportionate?

                If she sows hate speech? Yes.

                What you really meant to say is: “no, arresting her isn’t proportionate, but she should be arrested if she does something she hasn’t done”