The "Harry Potter" author slammed a newly enacted hate-crime law in Scotland in a series of posts on X in which she referred to transgender women as men.
The "Harry Potter" author slammed a newly enacted hate-crime law in Scotland in a series of posts on X in which she referred to transgender women as men.
J.K. Rowling shared a social media thread on Monday, the day a new Scottish hate-crime law took effect, that misgendered several transgender women and appeared to imply trans women have a penchant for sexual predation. On Tuesday, Scottish police announced they would not be investigating the “Harry Potter” author’s remarks as a crime, as some of Rowling’s critics had called for.
“We have received complaints in relation to the social media post,” a spokesperson for Police Scotland said in a statement. “The comments are not assessed to be criminal and no further action will be taken.”
Scotland’s new Hate Crime and Public Order Act criminalizes “stirring up hatred” against people based on their race, religion, disability, sexuality or gender identity.
Hilarious that this wretched lump of hate is being a crybully about how she’s supposedly putting herself in legal danger, even though she sends legal threats to people in the UK who call her a TERF. And I do mean people posting shit on Twitter, not newspapers publishing stories about her. “Free speech” (the right to incite hatred against minorities) for me but not for thee.
This TERF needs to just accept that she's not relevant anymore. She is just a washed up, miserable person and not even her bottomless wallet can bring her happiness.
While i agree with the sentiment i am concerned by this idea of policing how other people talk to each other. It seems completely insane that a government should be able to legally punish people for talking disrespectfully with each other. That is the essence of freedom of speech. People are able to express themselves freely without fear of the state punishing it.
I’ll risk the downvotes. I actually agree with her. It feels like mockery of my gender when men dress and present as female. They don’t have periods. They don’t experience child birth. They don’t have the risk of ovarian cancer, ovarian cysts, fibroids, and other health conditions. Many of them did not have to suffer the same gender discrimination in childhood, that I, and other born females, experienced. If they traveled to a foreign country, like Saudi Arabia, or Egypt, all they would need to do is dress differently to suddenly have more rights than women who are born female.
My mom (woman who raised me) had a male relative that would dress as her and often pretend to be her. I don’t know where she would go, when he was around all of us, but he honestly did not care about women, or women’s rights. He would mock feminism and bully my older sister for being very feminine. For him, it seemed to just be a costume he would wear in order to sponge off of my mother’s role. As her, he would drive her car, use her bed, eat her food, and bully both my older sister and I. Everyone just seemed to think it was funny. I thought it was cruel and disturbing. His sexuality wasn’t changed by his choice of costume. I walked into my mother’s bedroom, when I was a teen, and saw him standing by the bed, in her clothing, with his male appendage protruding upward from the underwear he was wearing. It was her underwear. He didn’t apologize, or cover himself. He had left the door wide open, knowing everyone else was home. He wanted to be seen like that. I think it was his way of trying to assert his dominance. Maybe he thought I would run away from home. Looking back at it, I should have. That would have forced everyone in town to alert the police, and investigate why I had left. I was focused on maintaining my grades and playing sports, as a teen, and didn’t want to sacrifice my future by running away from home, so I stayed.
And now society wants to give that man in a dress the same gender recognition as me. I’m sorry, but I don’t think he deserves it. I don’t think I should have to call him, a “her”.