The author has weighed in on Scotland's new laws.
JK Rowling has taken aim at Scotland’s new hate crime laws Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has backed JK Rowling after she challenged Scotland’s new hate crime laws and said she ‘looks forward to being arrested’. The Harry Potter author, who lives in Edinburgh, has previously come under fire for her views on gender and for describing several transgender women as men on Twitter, now X. Now, the PM and leader of the Conservatives has said that no-one should be criminalised ‘for stating simple biology’.
’ She continued: ‘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. ðð¼ð¸April Fools! ð¸ð¼ðOnly kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren’t women at all, but men, every last one of them.
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