JK Rowling dares Scottish police: arrest me for misgendering

The world famous author has challenged Scotland police after new hate crime laws came into effect, by publishing that high-profile trans women are actually biological men.

World famous author JK Rowling has thrown down a direct challenge to Scotland’s police to place her under arrest, after new hate crime laws came into effect, by publishing that high-profile trans women are actually biological men.

Ms Rowling, who lives in Edinburgh, provocatively identified trans activists and trans sex offenders in a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter, before stating: “Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.

“I’m currently out of the country, but if what I’ve written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.”

Scotland's Hate Crime Act comes into effect today. Women gain no additional protections, of course, but well-known trans activist Beth Douglas, darling of prominent Scottish politicians, falls within a protected category. Phew! 1/11 pic.twitter.com/gCKGwdjr5m

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 1, 2024

Ms Rowling mocked the new laws, highlighting how various trans women who have been convicted of sexual crimes, are biological men. She added to her social media posts on X the hashtags of #ArrestMe #AprilFools #HateCrimeActScotland.

She spotlighted rape offender Isla Bryson, Amy George who abducted a child and abused her for 27 hours, pedophile and sexual abuser Katie Dolatowski and sex offender Samantha Norris. She also pointed out how the chief executive of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre Mridul Wadhwa is a biological male and that the UN Woman’s first UK champion Munroe Bergdorf is also a biological male.

Mridul Wadhwa, head of a Scottish rape crisis centre, says, ‘sexual violence happens to bigoted people as well.’ She has no gender recognition certificate, but was still appointed to a job advertised for women only. Time to be ‘challenged on your prejudices’, rape victims! 7/11 pic.twitter.com/YfxUhbh6cw

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 1, 2024

The new law makes it an offence if people make “threatening or abusive behaviour which is intended to stir up hatred” on the grounds of age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity and variations in sex characteristics.

However sex is not a protected characteristic, and leading feminists believe this leaves women unprotected from hate crime.

Ms Rowling has been at the forefront of feminist views calling for the protection of the rights of women and girls and for several years has been the high profile target of trans activists.

On Monday the Harry Potter author said “In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish politicians 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.”

She added: “The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women’s and girls’ single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, the injustice of women’s jobs, honours and opportunities being taken by trans-identified men, and the reality and immutability of biological sex.”

Her posts have been seen by more than four million people in the first five hours of them being online.

Scottish National Party MP Joanna Cherry, a Kings Counsel, told the BBC the law would “be weaponised by trans rights activists to try to silence, and worse still, criminalise women who do not share their beliefs.”

“There is no right not be offended,” she said.

People can report “hate crime” to the police, or to a host of community outlets including a Glasgow sex shop “Luke and Jack” and a mushroom farm in East Lothian.