JK Rowling, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk are fuming over Scotland’s hate crime law
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![JK Rowling, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk are fuming over Scotland’s hate crime law. Here’s why.](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/97a7e746-f289-49b4-9f5f-b3ba36f1678f.png?format=jpg&thumbnail=256)
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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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Not even just a man's name, but the name of one of the most infamous conversion therapy "psychiatrists" from the 20th century.
U wot.
Edit: I just went through the wiki of the book and I cannot see any mention of the fact she tried to pass her work off under a male name. Has this been washed of it so that she can continue her ridiculous campaign without apparent hypocrisy?
She didn't write the Harry Potter books under her pseudonym, but a lot of her mediocre crime dramas are written under the name Robert Galbraith. The conversion therapy psychiatrist I'm talking about was named Robert Galbraith Heath.
Yes, and I checked the Wiki for The Casual Vacancy and it conveniently does not mention that she did that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Casual_Vacancy