J.K. Rowling Says She Would “Happily” Do Prison Time Over Her Transgender Views
Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has revealed that she would happily do prison time over her views on transgender women.
Rowling appeared to be responding to a story in the Mail on Sunday, which reported that a Labour government in Britain could make gender identity attacks a criminal offense.
Critics told the newspaper that it could result in prison sentences for those who refuse to use a transgender person’s preferred pronouns.
“Could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, isn’t it? Labour could do this. People could go to jail for it. Good thing for the artist sometimes known as Robert Galbraith that there’s almost certainly no danger of this actually happening, cos it would require Labour to actually win the next election, which they’re not obliged to have until January 2025, and the unelected Rishi Sunak appears to be in no rush to have it any earlier, and which, frankly, I can’t see them doing; I mean, if Corbyn couldn’t defeat that clown Johnson in 2019, I can’t see Starmer beating Sunak. Anyway, if Labour did get it, you know the Tories will do everything they can to block any law of this sort… I don’t know why but I’m getting a distinct feeling of Jordan B. Peterson’s bullshit about the Canadian Bill C-16 to this story, in that Bill C-16 existed but what Jurr Durr said about it was grossly dishonest and overblown to make people terrified about it; similarly, Labour’s promise to strengthen UK hate crime laws is evidently a thing but the Daily Fail just wants to horrify its readers with the prospect of treating trans people as human beings. Still, if Joanne’s OK with going to jail, I won’t get in her way…
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