JK Rowling has asserted that a ‘trans woman’ still isn’t a woman just because they make the effort to look like a pretty woman.
The Harry Potter author made the comments as controversy surrounding Scotland’s new hate crime law continues to swirl.
Under the new legislation, anyone deemed to have been verbally ‘abusive’, in person or online, to a transgender person, including “insulting” them could be hit with a prison sentence of up to seven years.
The law has sparked fears that merely ‘misgendering’ a trans person could be an arrestable offence. Rowling defied the new law by posting a number of images of ‘trans women’, most of them violent criminals and sex offenders, and challenging police to arrest her.
“If they go after any woman for simply calling a man a man, I’ll repeat that woman’s words and they can charge us both at once,” she stated.
Earlier today, Police Scotland said her comments were not being treated as criminal.
The author got into an argument with broadcaster Albie Amankona on X after Amankona asserted Munroe Bergdorf, a biological man, should be treated as a woman just because he has made the effort with body modifications and make-up.
“Like most Brits I am sympathetic to @jk_rowling’s views on biological sex & the need for single-sex provisions,” he posted.