J.K. Rowling has scathingly condemned Scotland’s new hate crime law, posting a string of tweets on X to sarcastically highlight cases of notorious convicted transgender individuals, illustrating her concerns. The Mail has more.
J.K. Rowling has unleashed her fury at Scotland’s new hate crime law which could see people arrested for using a transgender person’s wrong pronouns.
The Harry Potter author, and prominent gender critic, posted a string of tweets on X where she sarcastically urged her followers to respect “lovely Scottish lass” Isla Bryson – a convicted double rapist.
In another, she ridiculed the new legislation by referring to Katie Dolatowski, a transgender paedophile who assaulted children in supermarket toilets, as “fragile flower” who was “rightly sent to a women’s prison in Scotland”.
The excoriating blast comes hours as the Scottish Government’s Hate Crime and Public Order became law.
The controversial new law will criminalise threatening or abusive behaviour that is intended to stir up hatred against people on age, disability, religion, sexual orientation or transgender ideology.
But critics have warned that it could have a chilling effect on free speech.
Earlier today it was revealed by Scottish minister Siobhian Brown that people “could be investigated” for misgendering someone online. It means Rowling could be arrested for calling a trans person ‘he’ if the police decided to do so.
Rowling sarcastically highlighted other trans women who had been convicted of crimes.
She said Samantha Norris – a transgender charity worker who was jailed for possessing thousands of ‘abhorrent’ child abuse images – was “still a lady to me”.
In other posts she scoffed at those who had been given high-profile roles to represent women, such as UN Women selecting Munroe Bergdorf as its first ever U.K. champion. She wrote: “What makes a woman ‘a woman’ has no definitive answer, says Munroe. Great choice, UN Women!”
Rowling said in a lengthy statement on X: “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.
“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.”
The author said that while she is out of the country, her series of tweets this morning “qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act”.
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Par for the course. She’s one of Schwab’s “Young World Leaders”, along with Trudeau and some other not-so-young half-baked tyro despots, and it thus follows that everything she comes out with is so much ordure.
Not surprising. I was waiting for something to be sent to me from China, but the shipment tracking came to a full stop. Further enquiries with the China end informed me that the carrier’s business and warehouse had been locked down by the provincial government, for an initial period of 10 days, or perhaps longer.
I just simply don’t believe any aspect of this story. China has a Covid crisis because the CCP wants or needs a Covid crisis. The Chinese leadership is too smart and too savvy to cause economic damage because of a relatively minor outbreak of a now exceptionally weak and insignificant respiratory virus. They’re playing the same games now as the West has been playing for two years.. Why?
Because they’re not smart and savvy. On average, people are pretty stupid and they are doing stupid stuff all the time. This includes people whose only relevant skill is CCP-internal politics. Xi has boxed himself in with his Zero COVID strategy. He can’t admit that it was a stupid idea which was bound to end in a dismal failure, hence, he has to press on.
It’s not a small point that China does not really have a national health service. If people need medical attention on mass, they have no where to go.
My default position on China with regards to COVID from day one was that if the population required mass medical attention the CCP was going to be found out for the con job it really is.
The hospitals built in a few days, the armies of people in hazmat suits, it’s all smoke and mirrors. They can do that at a relatively small scale. But they can’t deploy that sort of thing across the country. Not even in their wildest dreams.
So any disease that causes a substantial uptick in those requiring medical care will expose a system in which medical treatment is paid out of pocket and only really available for the well to do. And even for them the system would be badly stretched.
My understanding is that the Magic Kingdom is a happy hunting ground for ruthless predators, and that the harm done to their child victims is hushed up.
Well, if you create a virus and not a way of stopping it, you get no Mickey Mouse. What kind of idiots create a bug and do not know how to stop it? The Chinese and Tony Fauci.
The zero-covid policy is one that regards the population like a herd of cattle and the state is like the farmer. In such a society, your body is not yours, it belongs to the state and it can test you, isolate you, vaccinate you at any time it decides. You are quite literally a slave of the state.
And that is what our overlords aspire to for us as well.
Last I checked, these “health” measures are being imposed in provinces and newish cities with a high proportion of Cantonese and Hakka speakers, and mobile migrant workers.
I’d suspect this may be their ruling class reminding uppity vassal groups that all comrades are equal, but Mandarin comrades are more equal than others.
Zero Covid was always a pipedream. Interesting that those who have practicised it the hardest are experiencing the biggest waves now. What are these authoritarian leaders seeking to prove exactly? That their strategy will work if only it is applied long and hard enough? 40 years to eradicate smallpox and it still emerges from time to time. Personally I blame the reverence accorded to this handful of fringe scientists (aka as THE science”) by a fawning media. For christ sake most of them are not even qualified to comment on these issues.
Closing Disney land? 3 hearty cheers for the disease, or rather the reactionto it! ANYTHING that adversely affects the crass Disney franchise can’t be all bad.
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What is up with China? Is China willing to let its workforce starve to death, locked up in their homes. What about China’s goal to become the world leader? Surely you cannot achieve that goal when your entire country is locked up. I smell a big rat.
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“Yet another nail in the coffin of the zero-Covid policy.”
But Devi Sridhar wrote a book about where everyone went wrong (not early enough and not hard enough presumably)
Par for the course. She’s one of Schwab’s “Young World Leaders”, along with Trudeau and some other not-so-young half-baked tyro despots, and it thus follows that everything she comes out with is so much ordure.
And by all accounts the WHO is working on a treaty to remedy that exact problem so that “next time” they can go in early and hard.
Are these the accounts from anyone credible? I’ve asked to see the receipts on this one before, and the evidence didn’t support the claim.
EU council: https://archive.ph/j0O0e
actually it’s the WHO infographic, EU council only published it
more links in here: https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/globalists-release-timeline-for-health
Not surprising. I was waiting for something to be sent to me from China, but the shipment tracking came to a full stop. Further enquiries with the China end informed me that the carrier’s business and warehouse had been locked down by the provincial government, for an initial period of 10 days, or perhaps longer.
or someone is desperately trying to FUBAR global trade.
A welcome re-appearance of ‘FUBAR’; it’s been away for far too long!
Exactly.
I just simply don’t believe any aspect of this story. China has a Covid crisis because the CCP wants or needs a Covid crisis. The Chinese leadership is too smart and too savvy to cause economic damage because of a relatively minor outbreak of a now exceptionally weak and insignificant respiratory virus. They’re playing the same games now as the West has been playing for two years.. Why?
Because they’re not smart and savvy. On average, people are pretty stupid and they are doing stupid stuff all the time. This includes people whose only relevant skill is CCP-internal politics. Xi has boxed himself in with his Zero COVID strategy. He can’t admit that it was a stupid idea which was bound to end in a dismal failure, hence, he has to press on.
It’s not a small point that China does not really have a national health service. If people need medical attention on mass, they have no where to go.
My default position on China with regards to COVID from day one was that if the population required mass medical attention the CCP was going to be found out for the con job it really is.
The hospitals built in a few days, the armies of people in hazmat suits, it’s all smoke and mirrors. They can do that at a relatively small scale. But they can’t deploy that sort of thing across the country. Not even in their wildest dreams.
So any disease that causes a substantial uptick in those requiring medical care will expose a system in which medical treatment is paid out of pocket and only really available for the well to do. And even for them the system would be badly stretched.
It would basically be a catastrophe for the CCP.
Because they are part and parcel of the great reset. What were they promised or paid?
Disney world and the covid scamdemic seem to have an awful lot in common to my mind.
One of them is a place with lots of rules and uniformed people spouting things only children could believe and the other is Disneyland.
My understanding is that the Magic Kingdom is a happy hunting ground for ruthless predators, and that the harm done to their child victims is hushed up.
So, yes, same-same.
Xi has a ‘special relationship’ with Disney.
Well, if you create a virus and not a way of stopping it, you get no Mickey Mouse. What kind of idiots create a bug and do not know how to stop it? The Chinese and Tony Fauci.
The Americans were involved in this bioweapon.
NOT. AGAIN.
The zero-covid policy is one that regards the population like a herd of cattle and the state is like the farmer. In such a society, your body is not yours, it belongs to the state and it can test you, isolate you, vaccinate you at any time it decides. You are quite literally a slave of the state.
And that is what our overlords aspire to for us as well.
Last I checked, these “health” measures are being imposed in provinces and newish cities with a high proportion of Cantonese and Hakka speakers, and mobile migrant workers.
I’d suspect this may be their ruling class reminding uppity vassal groups that all comrades are equal, but Mandarin comrades are more equal than others.
Have they got round to locking down chickens yet?
Zero Covid was always a pipedream. Interesting that those who have practicised it the hardest are experiencing the biggest waves now. What are these authoritarian leaders seeking to prove exactly? That their strategy will work if only it is applied long and hard enough? 40 years to eradicate smallpox and it still emerges from time to time. Personally I blame the reverence accorded to this handful of fringe scientists (aka as THE science”) by a fawning media. For christ sake most of them are not even qualified to comment on these issues.
May as well go to the doc and get a prescription for deja-vu
That’s another downer. Well it would be if I was planning on going to China and Disney land. Fortunately I’m planning neither, so I couldn’t give a F.
Disney closing? Lucky Chinese!
They’re getting ready to release a new virus upon the world, mark my words.
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Closing Disney land? 3 hearty cheers for the disease, or rather the reactionto it! ANYTHING that adversely affects the crass Disney franchise can’t be all bad.
What is up with China? Is China willing to let its workforce starve to death, locked up in their homes. What about China’s goal to become the world leader? Surely you cannot achieve that goal when your entire country is locked up. I smell a big rat.