JK Rowling has challenged Scotland’s new hate crime law in a series of social media posts - inviting police to arrest her if they believe she has committed an offence.
The Harry Potter author, who lives in Edinburgh, described several transgender women as men, including convicted prisoners, trans activists and other public figures.
She said “freedom of speech and belief” was at an end if accurate description of biological sex was outlawed.
Earlier, Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf said the new law would deal with a “rising tide of hatred”.
The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 creates a new crime of “stirring up hatred” relating to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex.
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Ms Rowling, who has long been a critic of some trans activism, posted on X on the day the new legislation came into force.
If only that article quoted her in it more than once…
I don’t really have to hold your hand and copy and paste the quotes from the article, do I? It’s not a very long article.
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I do. I gave you a link with direct quotes from her. Again, do I really need to copy and paste them here? Are you really unable to just read a short article that they’re in? I mean, I’ll paste them if you are actually that lazy. Are you really that lazy?
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Got it. You’re incredibly lazy. Here you go. I bolded the most relevant parts in case reading an entire paragraph plus a couple of other sentences is just too much effort:
On the social media platform X, the author responded to post that challenged her: “The Nazis burnt books on trans healthcare and research, why are you so desperate to uphold their ideology around gender?” The author wrote, “How did you type this out and press send without thinking ‘I should maybe check my source for this, because it might’ve been a fever dream’?”
Rowling replied to the tweet saying, “Neither of your articles support the contention that trans people were the first victims of the Nazis or that all research on trans healthcare was burned in 1930s Germany. You are engaging in lying, Alejandra.”
Holocaust denial is not “criticism.”
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They were, in fact, the first victims of the Holocaust. Which she denied. That’s what’s known as Holocaust denial.
https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/6-may-1933-looting-of-the-institute-of-sexology/
Believe it or not, admitting that the Nazis killed Jews but saying they only killed one million instead of six? Also Holocaust denial, not criticism.
By the way, if you had not been ridiculously lazy and had read the article which put those quotes in context, you will see that she still denied it after many people educated her on the subject.
Do you deny it?
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Yes, and saying the Nazis only killed one million Jews is not the same as saying the Nazis didn’t kill any Jews.
And yet both are Holocaust denial. You being of “Jewish descent” doesn’t change that denying parts of the Holocaust happened is Holocaust denial. You can be a rabbi, but if you say no Roma people were killed in the Holocaust, you’re a Holocaust denier. “I’m Jewish” is not a shield.
She was shown she was wrong and she doubled down on it. And now you’re supporting her because you refuse to look at the context which is also a form of Holocaust denial.
