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.

  • @[email protected]
    81•3 months ago

    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.

    • Omega
      19•3 months ago

      Why would she object to being a TERF? Isn’t she pretty open about her beliefs?

      • @[email protected]
        42•3 months ago

        TERFs love to play this game where TERF is actually a misogynistic slur, even when it completely accurately describes their bigotry. It reframes them as victims of misogyny instead of bigots.

        • Omega
          11•3 months ago

          Do they pretend that they don’t hate trans women? Is this like the “I’m not racist, but…” people?

          • @[email protected]
            21•3 months ago

            No. They pretend that acknowledging trans women erases womanhood itself and is the ultimate mysogyny.

          • @[email protected]
            16•3 months ago

            Depends on the audience, very often they will pay lip service to the idea that trans people shouldn’t be criminalized out of existence, and then with a more fashy audience just start goose stepping and talking about all the ways trans people should be criminalized out of existence. Even JKR has done that song and dance, saying that “if trans people were oppressed” she would march for them. 🙄

          • AdaEnglish
            5•3 months ago

            Do they pretend that they don’t hate trans women?

            Rowling has done that, yeah.

            She’s literally said that she’d march with trans people if our rights were under attack, whilst attacking our rights.