It was no April Fool’s joke.

Harry Potter author-turned culture warrior J.K. Rowling kicked off the month with an 11-tweet social media thread in which she argued 10 transgender women were men — and dared Scottish police to arrest her.

Rowling’s intervention came as a controversial new Scottish government law, aimed at protecting minority groups from hate crimes, took effect. And it landed amid a fierce debate over both the legal status of transgender people in Scotland and over what actually constitutes a hate crime.

Already the law has generated far more international buzz than is normal for legislation passed by a small nation’s devolved parliament.

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago*

see the benefit of being philosophically correct when all it does is empower the right-wing vocabulary

To be honest

changes my point which is what censorship of censorship is not censorship.

Because censorship is a description of an action, not a judgement of it- think "killing" vs "murder"

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