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.

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    7 months ago

    I didn’t quite catch your username first time round, a happy co-incidence!

    I was under the impression that her tweets weren’t illegal - even if she is being a bit of a bellend about it. I’m not sure whether it is outright legal, or whether it just doesn’t meet the threshold to secure a likely conviction.

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      7 months ago

      Not 100% sure but:

      The recent law is against “deadnaming” so Rowling keeps dead naming people on Twitter and daring cops to do something about it.

      Which I don’t think they will, because she’ll throw millions of dollars worth of lawyers at them.

      So she is (as far as I know) breaking the law

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        7 months ago

        I don’t understand how throwing millions of dollars at lawyers will help if she’s indeed breaking the law. Wouldn’t that be something easy to prove for a regular lawyer?