Cheats and Hate Laws
As the BBC reported in April, “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.”
According to the law, “A person commits an offence if they communicate material, or behave in a manner, ‘that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive,’ with the intention of stirring up hatred based on the protected characteristics,” which include “transgender identity.”
In response, Rowling posted a series of comments on April 1, all with pictures of men who identified as women, before explaining,
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 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.
In response to Rowling’s posts, Scotland did nothing.
On Our Own Shores
For good reason, even tennis great Martina Navratilova, herself an out and proud lesbian, could say, “I know I’m on the right side of history” in calling so-called transwomen athletes “cheats.”
It’s hard to argue with reality.
Leading up to last week’s presidential debate, LGBTQ+ activists issued a dire warning, stating, “This will be an enormous slight to our community if LGBTQ questions are not asked during this debate. Our community is deeply affected by where these candidates stand.”
Yet the candidates were not asked a single question relative to LGBTQ+ concerns, although the topic of abortion came up a few times.
And so, the pushback continues to gain ground as radical activism continues to lose steam and more and more Americans, regular people who are not bigots or haters, are saying, “Enough already.”
