Scotland Hate Crime Bill Includes Punishment for Misgendering, Even Online
PAY ATTENTION to the movement to erase females, female sports, and female-only spots around the world.
If you follow me on Twitter, you know protecting female sports and places has become a huge fight for me. Shoot, protecting the definition of female is a big deal.
I have a list on Twitter called #SaveWomensSports filled with brave females who speak out against actual misogyny and sexism.
We have to pay attention to this subject around the world.
Like today. Scotland’s Hate Crime and Public Order Act 2021 went into effect today. Notice a word missing from the protected classes that could get you arrested for “stirring up hatred.” A noticeable exclusion:
(a) age,
(b) disability,
(c) race, colour, nationality (including citizenship), or ethnic or national origins,
(d) religion or, in the case of a social or cultural group, perceived religious affiliation,
(e) sexual orientation,
(f) transgender identity,
(g) variations in sex characteristics. [intersex]
Sex. The bill does not include sex as a stand-alone protected class. The bill does not preserve biological males and females.
But females are most at risk because 99% of the time, we only hear about trans women. We don’t hear about trans men!
The chapter describing “stirring up hatred” is as vague as you would imagine. Notice there are no exceptions to how a person communicates supposed hatred:
(1) A person commits an offence if–
(a) the person–
(i) behaves in a manner that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening, abusive or insulting, or
(ii) communicates to another person material that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening, abusive or insulting, and
(b) either–
(i) in doing so, the person intends to stir up hatred against a group of persons based on the group being defined by reference to race, colour,
nationality (including citizenship), or ethnic or national origins, or(ii) a reasonable person would consider the behaviour or the communication of the material to be likely to result in hatred being stirred up against such a group.
(2) A person commits an offence if–
(a)the person—
(i)behaves in a manner that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive, or
(ii)communicates to another person material that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive, and
“Behaviour of any kind.” “A single act.” “A course of conduct.” You seriously face up to seven years for (emphasis mine):
(a) displaying, publishing or distributing the material,
(b) giving, sending, showing or playing the material to another person,
(c) making the material available to another person in any other way.
No exceptions.
I DESPISE the phrase “reasonable person” because it is entirely left up to interpretation, just like it would be if you just said person or people.
Women in Scotland point out that they are a “reasonable person.”
Women have been out in Paisley and know that a woman is an adult human female #FactIsNotHate #TruthIsNotACrime#FactIsNotACrime pic.twitter.com/G32f8OgydG
— WRN Scotland (@WRNScotland) April 1, 2024
Scotland included a “freedom of expression” part of the bill, which means crap considering the vagueness of the bill.
J.K. Rowling has remained at the forefront of this fight for years. She has dared Scottish police to arrest her when she comes home. She has a great April 1 thread about the law.
Scotland's Hate Crime Act comes into effect today. Women gain no additional protections, of course, but well-known trans activist Beth Douglas, darling of prominent Scottish politicians, falls within a protected category. Phew! 1/11 pic.twitter.com/gCKGwdjr5m
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 1, 2024
Fragile flower Katie Dolatowski, 6'5", was rightly sent to a women's prison in Scotland after conviction. This ensured she was protected from violent, predatory men (unlike the 10-year-old girl Katie sexually assaulted in a women's public bathroom.) 3/11 pic.twitter.com/13J5XfRo3a
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 1, 2024
Scottish woman and butcher Amy George abducted an 11-year-old girl while dressed in female clothing. No idea why this was mentioned in court – of course she was wearing women’s clothing, she's a woman! Amy took the girl home and sexually abused her over a 27-hour period. 5/11 pic.twitter.com/xy3DmnqZrc
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 1, 2024
Mridul Wadhwa, head of a Scottish rape crisis centre, says, ‘sexual violence happens to bigoted people as well.’ She has no gender recognition certificate, but was still appointed to a job advertised for women only. Time to be ‘challenged on your prejudices’, rape victims! 7/11 pic.twitter.com/YfxUhbh6cw
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 1, 2024
Munroe Bergdorf isn’t just a pretty face! Public campaigner for a children’s charity until safeguarding concerns were raised, she was appointed UN Women’s first ever UK champion. ‘What makes a woman “a woman” has no definitive answer,’ says Munroe. Great choice, UN Women! 8/11 pic.twitter.com/za6GG5q2Oo
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 1, 2024
Last, but least, TV’s India Willoughby proves we women can call a black broadcaster a ‘nasty bitch’ who ‘wouldn’t be anywhere without woke’, dub lesbians men, insult the looks of a female Olympic swimmer, ‘joke’ about kidnapping feminists, and STILL get airtime! What a gal! 10/11 pic.twitter.com/gShqbEvO5s
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 1, 2024
This last tweet by Rowling is superb. It’s long, but I’ll post the whole thing:
In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, 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. The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women’s and girls’ single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, the injustice of women’s jobs, honours and opportunities being taken by trans-identified men, and the reality and immutability of biological sex.
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. The re-definition of ‘woman’ to include every man who declares himself one has already had serious consequences for women’s and girls’ rights and safety in Scotland, with the strongest impact felt, as ever, by the most vulnerable, including female prisoners and rape survivors.
It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assault on women’s and girls’ rights, unless we are allowed to call a man a man. Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.
I’m currently out of the country, but if what I’ve written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.
If you agree with the views set out in this tweet, please retweet it.
#ArrestMe #AprilFools #HateCrimeActScotland
🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉
Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren’t women at all, but men, every last one of them.
In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their…
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 1, 2024
#FactIsNotACrime
#TruthIsNotACrime
#FactIsNotHate
Women in Fife have been sharing our posters #FactIsNotHate #TruthIsNotACrime#FactIsNotACrime pic.twitter.com/JRLEAPFKMp
— WRN Scotland (@WRNScotland) April 1, 2024
Today the Hate Crime & Public Order Act (Scotland) 2021 came into force @MaryHowden from @WRNScotland said "It is an Act that will have a chilling effect on free speech & women's rights.
Women won't be silenced! Facts are not hate. Truth should not be suppressed"#FactIsNotHate pic.twitter.com/l23EAH4RvC— WRN Scotland (@WRNScotland) April 1, 2024
Women in the Scottish Borders will not be silenced! #FactIsNotACrime #TruthIsNotACrime #FactIsNotHate pic.twitter.com/px4Xyp3fBX
— WRN Scotland (@WRNScotland) April 1, 2024
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Another valuable example of the importance of a constitution, something that doesn’t’ exist for the UK. Absent a supreme law of the land that limits or proscribes the power of the government and protects the inalienable rights of the people – like the freedom of expression and religion – government WILL ALWAYS slowly erode those civil rights because that’s simply the nature of government. Thank God Madison et al. were smart enough to understand this.
Sure, but constitutions are not self-executing. The values therein need to be taught to and embraced by the next generation, or it becomes a meaningless piece of paper.
In addition these rights must be defended even when, perhaps especially when, used by horrible people to express offense speech. It isn’t enough to defend OUR right to speech or to defend non controversial speech. We gotta be willing to defend everyone’s right to free speech even when we disunity the content of the speech.
Agreed, but they at least form a wall that opposition can use. “This far and no further.” Those nations lacking even that piece of paper have no limits. A constitution that spells out specific rights isn’t a guarantee, but it’s one of the most valuable tools the proponents of freedom can have.
“Son, we live in a world that has Schelling walls, and those walls need to be defended by men with guns.”
Where is this from? I searched the phrase “schelling walls” and got only a half dozen hits, none in English except this very page.
Look up “Schelling point”, and you’ll figure it out.
Question: How can you tell if a Scotsman is a MacDonald?
Answer: Lift up his kilt to see if he has a quarter pounder.
JK Rowling should be nominated for a Nobel!
No, by this point the Peace and Literature prizes have been so cheapened that being nominated is an insult, and being chosen is a disgrace.
Disgusting
Don’t they have a Muslim pm?
“As of 02 Apr 2024, Nicola Sturgeon is the current First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party. She has been in office since 2014 and is the first woman leader since the establishment of the Scottish Parliament and government in 1999.”
Amazing how often all this madness can be laid at the doorstep of a crazy white chick, enforcing her feelz at the point of a gun.
Just when I thought I could not like JK Rowling any more… You go girl.
What are the odds Rowling is arrested? Does she truly dare test trans-nazi resolve?
Those in charge will likely “Martha Stewart” her as warning to the peasantry. And then what happens? Will the peasants riot and storm the castle?
Oh, and the crossdressing man, with fake boobs, wielding a double bladed ax in one of the her tweets? Totally not a schizo freak.
I would be curious if England is bound to enforce criminal indictments of Scotland in the same way Florida is bound to enforce criminal indictments of another US state. If there is a similar compulsion in the UK, then I think the odds of her being arrested are not small. It would be stupid of Scotland to push the issue in that manner. But, it’s clear there are irrational people in charge of Scotland right now.
I don’t know how to phrase this properly but I think any broadcast/internet communication in the UK entering Scotland is subject to Scotland’s hate law.
It seems Rowling all ready doubled down.
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J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling
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Totally agree. I have been DELIBERATELY DEFIANT, in spite of some random bloke’s advice. A full investigation MUST be mounted.
#ArrestMe
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Random bloke:
Today’s posts by @jk_rowling were calculated to cause maximum impact on a day when a law protecting trans people came into effect in Scotland.
Her cannon of posts, particularly against @IndiaWilloughby, which she
continues to communicate through … despite my advice that she take them down, is a deliberate act of defiance.
@jk_rowling has challenged @PoliceScotland and the Procurator Fiscal Service to take action. If this new legislation is to have any meaningful impact @PoliceScotland must mount a full investigation
The Democrat and the RINOs want the same thing here.
You think it was a coincidence that Nikki Haley suddenly started yelling that nobody should be allowed to be anonymous online this year?
The DC establishment of which Haley is a member doesn’t like free speech, debate and exchange of ideas b/c the peasants might decide to make changes in policy that threaten the grift of the establishment.
The good Scots left generations ago.
They have had massively positive impacts on the places they have settled around the world and now just sadly shake their heads when they see what their lesser adventurous kin have done to the land of their origin.
You’re really wringing the fossil humidity out of the “no good scotsman” fallacy. 😂
The bizarre thing about the “crime” of misgendering is the tranny themselves does the misgendering in the first instance by asserting they are something they are not.
Sorry, but I refuse to live in your un-reality. Which makes me think I’m better equipped to evade you than you are to catch me.
Scotland has once again proven it is nothing but an open-air insane asylum.
If rape victims resisting being retraumatized at rape crisis centers might be a hate crime, is resisting the rape also a hate crime?
How will Scotland square these diktats with their warm embrace of Islamofascism, and, their general dhimmitude?
Muslim supremacists and Islamofascists don’t play well with homosexuals and trannies.
Calling a man a man is not “misgendering”
I feel sorry for any Chinese immigrant in Scotland who isn’t 150% native fluent in English. The Chinese third person pronoun is not gendered in spoken form, so many of my Sinophone ESOL students would say things like, “That lady? He’s my mother.” The Chinese term ren (人) applies to any specimen of Homo Sapiens, so they would also say, “My mother is a very diligent man.”
BTW, I am dropping any plans to visit Scotland. until this ridiculous law is either repealed or struck down in court.
Finally, since people are talking about “hate crimes”, would someone kindly tell me what a “love crime” or “simple respect” crime might be?
The term “hate crime” is used very differently in the UK than it is in the USA. In the UK hatred itself, or at least expressing it, is a crime. In the USA that is protected by the first amendment; here a “hate crime” is a category of ordinary crime. To be a hate crime something must first be a crime, for reasons having nothing to do with hatred. Then it can be categorized as a hate crime if it was motivated by hatred. So “hate crime” here is a phrase much like “greed crime”, and you can indeed have “love crimes” here, i.e. crimes committed out of love for someone, e.g. stealing to feed your loved one, or murdering your loved one’s abusive partner or landlord, or assaulting someone who insulted your loved one, etc.
Scotland made it a crime to insult someone
That is hard to believe
Why is it hard to believe? We used to have such laws here, before we had a first amendment to prevent them. That’s why we have it.
You may recall that British police arrested someone because they displayed the Union Jack.
The police were afraid that the British flag would disturb the Muslims, who were demonstrating.
That was what the arrested person claimed. The police denied that this was the reason for the arrest.
Correct, the man in question was shouting racist abuse and then doubled down by being racist to the police who turned up at his door. FAFO
Well, 1) that’s what the police claim. They’re no more credible than he is. 2) Even if true, it only proves the point that the UK has fallen down the hole of tyranny, and the flame of liberty that it bore in centuries past has gone out. The UK is now no better than the USSR or China; there is no freedom of speech.
Well, Scotland has just moved onto my list of European destinations not to visit again.
This is precisely the tyranny that Jordan Peterson claimed would result if Canada passed a similar law. The Marxists all pooh-poohed him with their typical “nobody wants to take your x” gaslighting. They lie, and they always have.
Meanwhile, in news actually having something to do with Americans, I got the opportunity to enjoy a newly implemented facet of the war on drugs, when I was required to file documentation on my $400 cash withdrawal from my checking account. So much for the $10,000 reporting requirement. They always find ways to turn the screws tighter. Hurrah for the “land where the criminals go free” and the government steps on the rest of us..
What?
I remember reading something about this a year or so ago. I guess it’s just taken effect, because it didn’t happen when I made a similar withdrawal a few months ago. Supposedly it’s because $50 dollar bills are frequently used in the drug trade, IIRC. It’s been the usual frog boiling. They started with large withdrawals of 10,000 or more, modified it to include any series of withdrawals that “appeared to avoid the 10K reporting”, and then later quietly added any withdrawals of $50 dollar bills, if memory serves me (sometimes it doesn’t, anymore).
It’s not a war on drugs, it’s a war on cash. The elitists hate the fact that you can buy something anonymously. That’s why I use cash whenever possible.
Yeah, but that wasn’t the excuse they used.
A local acquaintance makes periodic cash withdrawals to buy Goldbacks. The bank grills him every time.
“What’s the money for?”
“It’s for my hobby.”
“What’s your hobby?”
“Spending money.”
Scotland can cram it.
Mary, the “reasonable man”, also known as “the man on the Clapham omnibus”, or in these egalitarian days as “the reasonable person”, is a fundamental part of our entire legal system. Many laws are based on how a reasonable person would act, or understand something. Without it we would be required to guess how an individual would react to something, and be exposed to huge liability if we guessed wrong.
See A. P. Herbert’s satirical essay from more than a century ago, arguing that women shouldn’t be held to the standard of the “reasonable man”.
The jury was instituted precisely to instantiate “the reasonable man.” One experience with an NYC or DC jury destroys this fallacy forever.
In a world where the President of the USA believes men get pregnant and women can have wankers, what IS a “reasonable man”? One might as well try to define “woman”!
>>JK Rowling hate law posts not criminal – police
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Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-68712471The Woke found their implacable enemy.
There are 3 genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter (for those who have surgery thinking they can change what their DNA says).
Does that mean I can’t go to Scotland?