JK Rowling attempted Scotland cops to apprehend her for misgendering transgender individuals following the enactment of a brand-new hate criminal activity law Monday.
“Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the precise description of biological sex is considered criminal,” she stated on X Monday.
“I’m presently out of the nation, however if what I’ve composed here certifies as an offense under the regards to the brand-new act, I anticipate being apprehended when I go back to the birth place of the Scottish Enlightenment.”
Scotland’s neighborhood security minister Siobhian Brown then specified to the Telegraph that Rowling’s post might be reported to the authorities.
“Whether or not the cops would believe it was criminal depends on Police Scotland for that,” she stated.
Rowling continued to knock the Hate Crime and Public Order Act which “prohibits hatred on the basis of age, special needs, race, religious beliefs, sexual preference and transgender identity,” per New York Post.
She noted a variety of biological male sexual predators in Scotland who had actually transitioned to female, sardonically praising the nation as an April Fools Joke for accommodating them and protecting their rights unlike their victims
“In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish legislators appear to have actually put greater worth on the sensations of males performing their concept of femaleness, nevertheless misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and liberties of real ladies and women,” she mentioned in the post.
“The brand-new legislation is broad open to abuse by activists who want to silence those people speaking up about the threats of removing ladies’s and ladies’ single-sex areas, the rubbish made from criminal offense information if violent and sexual attacks devoted by males are taped as female criminal activities, the monstrous unfairness of permitting males to contend in female sports, the oppression of females’s tasks, honors and chances being taken by trans-identified males and the truth of immutability of biological sex.”
Rowling was born in England, she has actually lived in Scotland for many of her life. While Scotland belongs to the UK, it has its own laws and cops.
Jim Sillars, the previous deputy leader of the Scottish National Party, remained in arrangement with Rowling. He had actually introduced a project to “withstand the Hate Crime Act and project for its repeal.”
He stated it “causes a deep injury on the face of Scottish society” in a declaration. “Today by themselves admission, Police Scotland will equate itself from a service into a force for one specific function– the pursuit of individuals who speak their minds.
“How has Scotland, the seat of the Enlightenment, pertained to this?”
Lois McLatchie Miller, Scottish representative for ADF UK, offered an unique remark to Human Events, highlighting that under the brand-new law, it will be “progressively challenging to hold crucial discussions about subjects like marital relationship and gender” over worries that it would be analyzed as hate speech.
