JK Rowling has challenged Scotland’s new hate crime law in a series of social media posts - inviting police to arrest her if they believe she has committed an offence.
The Harry Potter author, who lives in Edinburgh, described several transgender women as men, including convicted prisoners, trans activists and other public figures.
She said “freedom of speech and belief” was at an end if accurate description of biological sex was outlawed.
Earlier, Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf said the new law would deal with a “rising tide of hatred”.
The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 creates a new crime of “stirring up hatred” relating to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex.
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Ms Rowling, who has long been a critic of some trans activism, posted on X on the day the new legislation came into force.
It is not.
I have some with me anyway, but it is not. And neither is Wisconsin, the closest state over.
Thankfully, I brought enough for my needs.
Hold on, according to the googles, cannabis is in fact, legal in Minnesota. However, getting it where you are me be not an easy affair. However, I am glad that you managed to get what you need regardless.
As a New Yorker temporarily stuck in Florida, I had to go through some hoopty loopty bullshit of getting a medical card to get my weed. As you may or may not know, weed is extra special, super Duper legal in New York, as legal as booze or cigarettes. But in Florida, you actually have to get some stupid card and a prescription to get it, which is bullshit. it’s very transparently just a racket for so-called doctors and the state to get a cut as middlemen aka “private industry” rather than taxation and public interest get a stake. It also artificially introduces a high bar of entry to keep “undesirables” out and to help criminalize those who can’t afford entry into the “club”, further reinforcing the classist, racist structure.
I very much hope to be back in New York very soon.
Weed is definitely legal in Minnesota. I can tell you a few places here in the Twin Cities that sell edibles, but anything else is a bit harder to find because of how legalization happened - edibles happened first by accident because Republicans can’t read, and last year with the DFL getting the house and senate they properly legalized it but the full rollout has been slower.