designed to crack down on “stirring up hatred” related to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity, or intersex identity. And“Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls,”comes with a maximum penalty of a seven-year prison sentence.
“If what I’ve written here qualifies as an offense under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment,” she added. This isn’t the first time Rowling has made such a statement. Last October, the author declared on X that she would “happily” be imprisoned if awere implemented that classifies misgendering people as an aggravated offense. “I’ll happily do two years if the alternative is compelled speech and forced denial of the reality and importance of sex,” she said at the time. “Bring on the court case, I say.”