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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.

Ms Rowling, who has long been a critic of some trans activism, posted on X on the day the new legislation came into force.

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[–] niva@discuss.tchncs.de 91 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

This is mental illness by now! Seriously wtf? Why is this so important for her that she can't stop talking about it? If I had some irrational hate for trans woman, I would not go on about it in public all the time.

Don't we have more important problems then to bash people that are so unhappy with their body that they are willing to take hormones and let people operate on their genitals?

This is such a simple thought, everybody should be able to think it, right? But on the other hand, she is not the only one hating transgender women or men. I mean it is not right to hate people for that. But if I would hate trans people then I would just not invite them for dinner and would stop talking about them all the time.

It must be some form of mental illness I have no other explanation.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have another one.

After enough time has passed since the initial conflict, it becomes less about the subject of the conflict and more about the conflict in itself. The reason becomes secondary and instead the goal becomes winning against the other side or at least making it hurt.

[–] niva@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes I think you are right. And I think this is borderline a mental illness if you can't stop lashing out. As I understand it, she somehow thinks by bashing trans women she is doing something good for women. Trans women are somehow taking away her womanhood or something like that. I have read something like this several times from Rowling but I have no clue how trans woman could do that. But Rowling is obsessed with that, for what ever reason.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Following this train of thought, what I gathered from other comments is that she had a bad experience with a man in the past, her targeted social media experience likely concentrated the bad news in that direction and her view is now that the trans movement is just evil men looking to invade women's personal spaces in order to abuse them.

If you look at her as someone bombarded with Fox News type of content, then perhaps that kind of paranoia and fear is what makes her so vocal in her opposition.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah. And it’s important to understand that the pipeline she followed does a swap. Once she became convinced trans women were the problem she began associating with men who are misogynists and support the harm to cis women that she fears. By the time she’s standing with Matt Walsh and funding groups that also oppose abortion access protecting cis women is no longer her primary concern, it may be what she thinks is her primary concern but if so she believes that trans women are a larger threat than those who oppose the right to choose to stop being pregnant or men who want to relegate cis women back to traditional gender roles.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

"Strange bedfellows" comes to mind in this regard.

[–] pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Repressed self hatred.

The whole projecting thing that people like this do.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Nah its the female equivalent of white knight syndrome. They think they're saving womanhood from impostors.

[–] pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

Why not both, M'lud?

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

f I had some irrational hate for trans woman, I would not go on about it in public all the time.

Even when I was a homophobic theist shithead I knew better than to say anything.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Or at least to say something else on occasion!

How does this cunt order soup!? Uses the t word like Morse code?

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Operative word in your post is "irrational." If she were being rational, she would probably shut up about it. She's not either, unfortunately.