JK Rowling in ‘arrest me’ challenge over Scottish hate crime law

I am so fucking sick of these bigots pretending the science of "biological sex" is on their side.

In recent years, multiple studies of the brains of trans people have revealed areas of differentiation from those of cisgender people. And unless these bigots are prepared to argue that brains are not part of biology, they only have two choices: Deny the science somehow or accept that they're just bigots who want to hate, regardless of the science.

And because unlike bigots, I like to back my shit up:

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-020-0666-3
• https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2804855
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8955456/

On top of that, there's some indications of oligogenic causes resulting in various allele differences that wouldn't necessarily show up on a brain scan.

In conclusion: Fuck bigots and their attempts to co-opt science in order to support their bigotry.

OR, and hear me out, you could just not be a total asshole? Maybe have a baseline of tolerance and respect for the people who made you a billionaire? No? Then fuck right off and accept the consequences of your hatred.

It's becoming harder and harder to be a Harry Potter fan nowaday.

I don't really understand what it is about X Formerly Known as Twitter that turns previously respectable people into, well, this.

Everybody should take a break from social media once in a while, it's better for your health.

Rowling quote from the article:

Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls.

It's difficult to accept that someone I used to respect could say such hateful things about people like me. I'm not gonna lie, it hurts to read. What the fuck, Joanne? Is that all I am to you... just a man "performing" my idea of femaleness? Well, fuck you, then. Should I wish for you to feel the same pain you've inflicted on others? To be honest, judging by your "performance" in the media the past several years, I don't think you're resilient enough to survive it.

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.

It’s not a crime to be an insufferable piece of shit. Usually. If they make an exception for her, okay then.

Why are some people so determined to be pieces of shit?

If I had her money, I wouldn't spend my time bullying people and starting fights with the police. She's clearly insane in the most fundamental way.

Friendly reminder that Scotland's freedom of speech laws are different from those in the US.

Trans people exist and deserve, like anyone, to be treated with dignity and respect. Get the fuck over it.

Ugh.

Her opinion on trans folks is shit, but people should not go to jail for shit opinions. Broken clock and stuff.

People who use biology as an excuse to hate on people have no grasp on how biology even works. You should know that gender disphoria, gender transitions and other genders as well come in fact with small noticeable differences, such as the way the brain is wired and even the many mechanisms inside your body. Unfortunately, such differences are not noticeable right off the bat. But they exist. Also FFS, she could have just enjoyed her harry potter money, maybe she could go silent after the first tweet but come on! There'se no reason to go any further, no reason. She now dwells with the likes of her conservative friends - She's no victim. There's more money there than many of us could see in a lifetime. She actually has too much -

Can we just hold one big public figure accountable to the law? Please?

Ms Rowling, who has long been a critic of some trans activism

That's a particularly odd way for the BBC to characterize her behavior.

I live in Canada where we have hate crime laws, they don't affect 99% of us in any way, because 99% of us aren't walking around calling for the death of groups of people, based on race, gender, etc. Hate crime laws only affect the people who are truly beyond hateful. Nobody is gonna arrest you for being an anti trans asshole, but that will if you start inciting violence or calling for blood

Scotland was literally willing to leave the UK over this. I wouldn’t be putting money on Joanne to come out on top here.

Ironic: She tried to insert herself as Hermoine/McGonagall, but she really was Umbridge all along.

I’m always confused by people that are willing to tank their body of work and public image in order to yell on a soapbox for culture war bullshit.

“Am I being detained!?!?!?”

–JK Rowling

I'm glad that Harry Potter wasn't my favourite series growing up, knowing how bad of a person she is. With that said, it's still possible to separate the art from the artist, so it's okay either way but personally I just feel better knowing it wasn't my number one favourite series growing up.

I look forward to the pending arrest video, where she is suddenly all apologetic and saying sorry, and not understanding why they won't let her go because she just said sorry to them.

I predict that when she doesn't get arrested, she will continue to whine about it. Much like Jordan Peterson and the bill in Canada.

Who knewa serial plagiarist would be a shit person

Do it though. Do arrest her.

I forsee her not being arrested

Please do. She may see herself as some kind of martyr, but everyone else just sees her as an idiot.

You know what's baffling to me?

She was poor at some point. She lived in poverty off of government welfare. Chances are there are a good amount of children who grew up with her works that transitioned later on. They are part of the same fanbase that lifted her from poverty.

How can you genuinely turn out that unsympathetic for your fellow human beings like that?

I don't know whether their law against "stirring up hatred" is any good or not, but either way it takes a very special kind of person to respond to it by playing the game of stirring up as much hatred as possible without getting arrested.

Hate is the keyword here, stating something factual is fine but as we all know someone somewhere will misuse this act if they are butthurt enough

Hasn't she literally been banned from Germany for publicly denying the holocaust?

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Tbh, it's a badly thought out "law" that seems to be just a case of letting the police decide whether to act on it or not, letting them deal with things based on their own prejudices (e.g. weed is illegal in the UK, but if you were a racist copper you could arrest some black youths for smoking it and not some white kids). It's cowardly politics, and avoids actually defining anything or drawing any lines in the sand.

Also, it's not a crime to be a moron on Twitter. One might argue it's where they belong.

The same law that prohibits hatred towards transgenders transgender people also prohibits it towards age discriination. (“stirring up hatred” relating to age, disability etc).

Does this mean you can't call me a boomer any longer?

she's not getting arrested

.... so arrest her?

I’m utterly befuddled by this woman; somehow she hates the idea of trans women so much that she’s now closely allied with Posie Parker, a woman who hates women, hates suffrage, has advocated for the removal of women’s rights for years, and shares closely held opinions from just right of Goebbels.

Somehow Jo has become so utterly single-minded, she’s paired with the antithesis of all the other things she believes in (and still claims to believe as justification of her anti-trans nonsense).

I'm still relevant guys hey hey I wrote more than 3 good books guys!?

don't threaten me with a good time

Some people here really breaking their backs with the freeze peach of haring trans.

Based.

Note how they didn't quote "accurate description of biological sex", I wonder why that is... Almost like they think that's what she's really doing...

I have never and will never give her a dime. My kid is banned. We will never stream 1 second or flip 1 page.

She's the female version of Trump except with money and actually self made. They're both garbage humans and think that they're untouchable.

Throw her in a cell with the burliest trans inmate they can find, just for the fun of it.

I used to not really like JKR for reasons like these: https://stallman.org/harry-potter.html

I am not completely sure where I stand on her substantive opinions in relation to trans issues. I think it's a debate where both sides make some good points.

But she is definitely right about the decline of free speech.

She's actually not the real author of Harry Potter. JK lent her name because the real author didn't want a public facing persona. Unfortunately the identity of the real author remains unknown.