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.
Please stop advocating for trans people, you’re only hurting their cause.
That’s not what I have been told, on numerous occasions.
But you should stop advocating for insensitive assholes who like to mock, insult and hurt others for recreational amusement, it only makes your “but it’s only a joooooke!” that much more obviously pathetic.
I am not advocating for anyone. I’m just telling you that you shouldn’t either.