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.

Ms Rowling, who has long been a critic of some trans activism, posted on X on the day the new legislation came into force.

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      7 months ago

      Yes, and saying the Nazis only killed one million Jews is not the same as saying the Nazis didn’t kill any Jews.

      And yet both are Holocaust denial. You being of “Jewish descent” doesn’t change that denying parts of the Holocaust happened is Holocaust denial. You can be a rabbi, but if you say no Roma people were killed in the Holocaust, you’re a Holocaust denier. “I’m Jewish” is not a shield.

      She was shown she was wrong and she doubled down on it. And now you’re supporting her because you refuse to look at the context which is also a form of Holocaust denial.