This is INSANE! Here’s the essence of the matter perfectly stated: “Now Scotland would have everyone believe that when a man says he is a woman, he is a woman. If you disagree and have the boldness of J.K. Rowling to call out the lie, then the government will force you under threat of criminal penalty to change your mind. Scotland’s Hate Crime and Public Order Act is a not very subtle form of big brother censorship, a tremendous diminution of free speech, and a century of protections built for women.” So Scotland is going to throw out arrest warrants for anyone they feel deserves it based on a lie.
It is going to be interesting to see how this plays out. As the former footballer, Ally McCoist pointed out today -- 48,000 going to the Celtic Rangers match on Saturday will most likely be engaging in a Hate Crime (Celtic/Rangers is notoriously sectarian).He believes the law is unworkable.
It definitely appears to have been weaponized , just as many feminists warned it would be.
This is crazy! A woman can't be themselves let alone have to protect themselves because these so-called " Gworls" wannabe us, but want to take advantage of us. Can we say castration? Now, the biological woman mainly in the prison system would need some kind of defense mechanism because these "Gworls" are taking advantage of us. Ladies, we gotta stop these pedophile, murderous he-shes from taking us out!
So don't call a trans woman a man, or He when referring to them. Simply state, "this person who calls themself a woman, and has a dick" ...then continue your quote of or reference to them. Doesn't break the law.
Wouldn’t it be ideal if the limited resources of Scottish policing were left to police actual crimes and not put in the impossible position of becoming Orwellian thought police. Thank goodness for JK Rowling, her courage and tenacity in always fighting for freedom of speech and the ludicrous position of trans activists is admirable. However she is one of few willing to use her public profile to fight the good fight.
Humza Yusef is a Muslim man isn’t he? What the F business does he have agreeing with laws that call Transexual Men MEN. What about making a law that all trans gender “Women” (MEN) have to wear Burkas at least they wouldn’t be misgendered!
I know who should be in stocks there in Scotland and it ain't women ...
But Rowling needs a remedial course in basic biology herself for this howler of hers: "the immutability of biological sex". Though she's unlikely to be alone in that class. But by standard biological definitions -- those promulgated in reputable biological journals, encyclopedias, and dictionaries all across the land -- to have a sex is to have functional gonads of either of two types, those with neither being, ipso facto, sexless.
Probably thousands of anisogamous species change sex all the time -- hardly "immutable". And more than a few more or less reputable biologists -- like Jerry Coyne and PZ Myers, along with Wolfgang Goymann, Henrik Brumm, and Peter Kappeler at the Wiley Online Library -- argue, with some justification, that many humans are neither male nor female:
Technically, none of us acquire a sex until the onset of puberty.
But Rowling and her ilk are not a great deal better in peddling folk-biology -- hardly better than the Kindergarten Cop definitions -- than that erstwhile reputable biological journal Cell which asks, "Is ‘sex’ a useful category?”:
This is INSANE! Here’s the essence of the matter perfectly stated: “Now Scotland would have everyone believe that when a man says he is a woman, he is a woman. If you disagree and have the boldness of J.K. Rowling to call out the lie, then the government will force you under threat of criminal penalty to change your mind. Scotland’s Hate Crime and Public Order Act is a not very subtle form of big brother censorship, a tremendous diminution of free speech, and a century of protections built for women.” So Scotland is going to throw out arrest warrants for anyone they feel deserves it based on a lie.
Helen Joyce’s book “Trans” was a revelation. This is all very deeply bizarre.
Again it’s the patriarchy. I don’t even believe in the patriarchy but now I do. The patriarchy of perverted men
I always thought the Scots were a practical, pragmatic tribe. It appears I am wrong.
The Police Scotland have decided no action -- no word on the non crime hate incident thing.
But JKR has tweeted this: https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1775190408110264673
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.
A bloody heroine...
Thanks for the great reporting. There's much to lament, not least your sidelined vacation plans!
It is going to be interesting to see how this plays out. As the former footballer, Ally McCoist pointed out today -- 48,000 going to the Celtic Rangers match on Saturday will most likely be engaging in a Hate Crime (Celtic/Rangers is notoriously sectarian).He believes the law is unworkable.
It definitely appears to have been weaponized , just as many feminists warned it would be.
good, and scary point.
This is crazy! A woman can't be themselves let alone have to protect themselves because these so-called " Gworls" wannabe us, but want to take advantage of us. Can we say castration? Now, the biological woman mainly in the prison system would need some kind of defense mechanism because these "Gworls" are taking advantage of us. Ladies, we gotta stop these pedophile, murderous he-shes from taking us out!
Gerald and Trisha, you make a great investigative team. Thanks.
The world's first transgenderist totalitarian regime has now been established.
So don't call a trans woman a man, or He when referring to them. Simply state, "this person who calls themself a woman, and has a dick" ...then continue your quote of or reference to them. Doesn't break the law.
Wouldn’t it be ideal if the limited resources of Scottish policing were left to police actual crimes and not put in the impossible position of becoming Orwellian thought police. Thank goodness for JK Rowling, her courage and tenacity in always fighting for freedom of speech and the ludicrous position of trans activists is admirable. However she is one of few willing to use her public profile to fight the good fight.
Humza Yusef is a Muslim man isn’t he? What the F business does he have agreeing with laws that call Transexual Men MEN. What about making a law that all trans gender “Women” (MEN) have to wear Burkas at least they wouldn’t be misgendered!
I can hardly wait until Scotland once again apologizes to women .... Some people are slow learners:
"Nicola Sturgeon apologizes to people [mostly if not entirely women] accused of witchcraft"
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-60667533
I know who should be in stocks there in Scotland and it ain't women ...
But Rowling needs a remedial course in basic biology herself for this howler of hers: "the immutability of biological sex". Though she's unlikely to be alone in that class. But by standard biological definitions -- those promulgated in reputable biological journals, encyclopedias, and dictionaries all across the land -- to have a sex is to have functional gonads of either of two types, those with neither being, ipso facto, sexless.
Probably thousands of anisogamous species change sex all the time -- hardly "immutable". And more than a few more or less reputable biologists -- like Jerry Coyne and PZ Myers, along with Wolfgang Goymann, Henrik Brumm, and Peter Kappeler at the Wiley Online Library -- argue, with some justification, that many humans are neither male nor female:
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/06/04/sf-chronicle-sex-and-gender-are-not-binaries/#comment-2048737
https://twitter.com/pzmyers/status/1466458067491598342
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202200173?af=R
Technically, none of us acquire a sex until the onset of puberty.
But Rowling and her ilk are not a great deal better in peddling folk-biology -- hardly better than the Kindergarten Cop definitions -- than that erstwhile reputable biological journal Cell which asks, "Is ‘sex’ a useful category?”:
https://humanuseofhumanbeings.substack.com/p/is-sex-a-useful-category
The whole point of the biological definitions is that they HAVE TO work for ALL anisogamous species, including the human one -- no exceptions.