The Harry Potter author described several transgender women as men in a series of social media posts.

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.

  • kescusay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23720·
    8 months ago

    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:

    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.

    • Billiam@lemmy.world
      303·
      8 months ago

      Deny the science

      Sure thing Bob, let me just stack that in-between “Evolution” and “climate change” on my shelf of “Things that don’t fit my bigoted, hateful, and selfish worldview, so I just conveniently ignore them.”

    • moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      21·
      8 months ago

      They will always find a fallacy to argue you that they are right. It’s a belief. You need to bring them to realize they are wrong.

      Hard fact, evidence based fact isn’t the bast practice to change these beliefs.

    • Feddyteddy@lemmy.sdf.org
      1111·
      8 months ago

      Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but why would you link to an article that mentions “biological sex” in the first sentence when trying to prove that there is no such thing as “biological sex”? I’m almost certainly missing something, so please excuse my ignorance.

    • Lemming6969@lemmy.world
      11·
      8 months ago

      Biological sex exists, it’s just not binary, and the mental part of this has a massive psycho-social component to it that few take into consideration. Brain research on this is still in the chicken vs egg stage it seems based on those papers.