J.K. Rowling Defies Scottish Authorities As New Hate Crime And Public Order Act Is Enforced: “I Look Forward To Being Arrested”
Josh Berger
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Harry Potter scribe J.K. Rowling takes to social media to defy Scottish authorities as strict Hate Crime and Public Order act is enforced, declaring that she looks “forward to being arrested” when she returns to the country.
Officially titled “Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021,” this particular law was first passed by the Scottish Parliament on the 11th of March, 2021 — receiving Royal Assent a on the 23rd of April that same year, and enforced on Monday the 1st of April, 2024.
Per the document, the act is enforced “to make provision about the aggravation of offences by prejudice; to make provision about an offence of racially aggravated harassment; to make provision about offences relating to stirring up hatred against a group of persons; to abolish the common law offence of blasphemy; and for connected purposes.”
Further — specifically regarding “Aggravation of offences by prejudice” — the law stipulates that an offence is “aggravated by prejudice” when ” there is a specific victim of the offence,” which can happen “at the time of committing the offence, or immediately before or after doing so, the offender demonstrates malice and ill-will towards the victim” or when “the malice and ill-will is based on the victim’s membership or presumed membership of a group” that the document lists as follows: “age, disability, race, colour, nationality (including citizenship), or ethnic or national origins, religion or, in the case of a social or cultural group, perceived religious affiliation, sexual orientation, transgender identity, variations in sex characteristics.”
It is also “aggravated by prejudice,” the document states, “Whether or not there is a specific victim of the offence, the offence is motivated (wholly or partly) by malice and ill-will towards a group of persons based on the group being defined by reference to a characteristic mentioned” above towards members of the specified group.
In the “Offences of stirring up hatred” section, the document also stipulates, “A person commits an offence if the person behaves in a manner that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening, abusive or insulting, or communicates to another person material that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening, abusive or insulting.”
” A person who commits an offence under this section is liable—on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum (or both), or on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years or a fine (or both),” it further states.
The Harry Potter scribe has been very vocal about her discontent with transgender ideology, accusing on several occasions that this particular movement seeks to erase women — criticism that could end up falling into the categories protected by the new hate crime law.
As the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 is enforced on Monday, the Harry Potter author shared a series of social media posts showing transgender activists and criminals to decry the new law’s hypocrisy in omitting women as a protected group against hatred.
“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!” wrote Rowling, sharing a couple of posts made by Douglas wherein he incited to violence on social media.
In a follow-up post the Harry Potter author added, “Lovely Scottish lass and convicted double rapist Isla Bryson found her true authentic female self shortly before she was due to be sentenced. Misgendering is hate, so respect Isla’s pronouns, please. Love the leggings!”
“Fragile flower Katie Dolatowski, 6’5″, was rightly sent to a women’s prison in Scotland after conviction,” ironically mocked Rowling, adding, “This ensured she was protected from violent, predatory men (unlike the 10-year-old girl Katie sexually assaulted in a women’s public bathroom.)”
“Samantha Norris was cleared of exposing her penis to two 11-year-old girls. Hooray!” Rowling mocked.
She continued, “Unfortunately she was then convicted for possession of 16,000 images of children being raped and sexually assaulted. Be that as it may, Sam’s still a lady to me.”
Rowling pointed out, “Scottish woman and butcher Amy George abducted an 11-year-old girl while dressed in female clothing..
“No idea why this was mentioned in court – of course she was wearing women’s clothing, she’s a woman! Amy took the girl home and sexually abused her over a 27-hour period,” she added.
“But most women aren’t axe-toters or sex offenders, so let’s talk role models! Guilia Valentino (in red) wanted to play on the women’s team ‘because of sisterhood, validation and political visibility’,” Rowling sarcastically remarked.
“Naturally, she was given some boring cis girl’s place,” the Harry Potter author later added, concluding with tongue-in-cheek “Yay for inclusion!”
“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,” the author asserted.
Rowling decried, “Time to be ‘challenged on your prejudices’, rape victims!”
“Munroe Bergdorf isn’t just a pretty face! Public campaigner for a children’s charity until safeguarding concerns were raised, she was appointed UN Women’s first ever UK champion. ‘What makes a woman “a woman” has no definitive answer,’ says Munroe. Great choice, UN Women,” Rowling cynically praised.
“Katie Neeves has been appointed as the UN Women UK delegate,” Rowling pointed out. “She switched from straight man to lesbian at the age of 48 and, in a leaked 2022 webinar, described how she used to enjoy stealing and wearing her sister’s underwear. A truly relatable representative!”
Singling out transgender broadcaster India Willoughby, who the author’s had an ongoing feud for a while, Rowling mocked, “Last, but least, TV’s India Willoughby proves we women can call a black broadcaster a ‘nasty b—h’ who ‘wouldn’t be anywhere without woke’, dub lesbians men, insult the looks of a female Olympic swimmer, ‘joke’ about kidnapping feminists, and STILL get airtime! What a gal!”
Rowling would eventually go on to explain that her very much intentional series of posts — specifically regarding her addressing of the aforementioned transgender individuals as women — were an April Fools joke, elaborating more on the reasons that led her to highlight them; defying authorities to “arrest” her if what she shared could be deemed offensive under Scotland’s strict new act.
“Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren’t women at all, but men, every last one of them,” Rowling mocked.
She elaborated, “In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, 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.”
“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,” Rowling further explained.
She noted, “For several years now, Scottish women have been pressured by their government and members of the police force to deny the evidence of their eyes and ears, repudiate biological facts and embrace a neo-religious concept of gender that is unprovable and untestable.”
“The re-definition of ‘woman’ to include every man who declares himself one has already had serious consequences for women’s and girls’ rights and safety in Scotland, with the strongest impact felt, as ever, by the most vulnerable, including female prisoners and rape survivors,” the Harry Potter author decried.
Rowling went on, “It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assault on women’s and girls’ rights, unless we are allowed to call a man a man. 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,” the author defied.
Rowling then encouraged readers to share her post, concluding, “If you agree with the views set out in this tweet, please retweet it.”
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