It was no April Fool’s joke.
Harry Potter author-turned culture warrior J.K. Rowling kicked off the month with an 11-tweet social media thread in which she argued 10 transgender women were men — and dared Scottish police to arrest her.
Rowling’s intervention came as a controversial new Scottish government law, aimed at protecting minority groups from hate crimes, took effect. And it landed amid a fierce debate over both the legal status of transgender people in Scotland and over what actually constitutes a hate crime.
Already the law has generated far more international buzz than is normal for legislation passed by a small nation’s devolved parliament.
This isn’t one of those times.
To think otherwise is going to make you a lot of enemies by rational people outside these forums.
If you think anti-queer bigotry is excusable, fuck you.
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The topic is that their beliefs are actively harmful… which is inexcusable. Do you speak English?
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