Scottish Hate Crime Laws: Police Confirm JK Rowling's Comments Not Criminal

It seems JK Rowling has talked about a pretty significant Victoria on her own, she's fantastic isn't she? I mean, she basically named trans women and then said in her tweets about them that they were men. Then she said: "I'm coming home to Scotland soon Edinburgh Police will arrest me when I land I'll be delighted, delighted to be questioned by you Edinburgh Police have now said that no

crime

has been committed but actually she talked about a victory or the law was misinterpreted because Scott said yday the Scottish government said from the beginning to confuse someone uh it wouldn't be a

crime

it wasn't a crime uh so she made her point clear I guess she did in a way.

You could argue that she clarified the law and made it clear publicly, but she may never have been at risk in the first place, but on the same day the

police

say they are not going to arrest her for anything. Police are investigating 3,800 cases in 24. hours under this new

hate

crime law in Scotland that They're going to feel completely overwhelmed, well that's what it means that all of this is going to be unworkable because of how it all played out, because of the reaction that people are going to think, um, I'm trans. I have the right to be called a man and taking the JK that no you are not, they will say that if someone like JK is going to complain they will be inundated with complaints that the Labor Party backed this law change in Scotland. it's a recipe for disas, it covers, it covers other people, remember also, it's the color of age disability as well as the trans issue, but of course that's so controversial that you can imagine people sitting in line and complaining, probably both ways, I mean 3, 8 complaints in one day, that's amazing, yesterday we were overwhelmed with messages from people who live in Scotland, very much in favor of repealing this law, yes, to say now this has happened um, as you say, maybe, maybe what happened with JK Roing has shown that. the law is actually unworkable um work as you say work work supported it um look now Mr.

Jones, would you consider a law to repeal it? Its viable? Well, it's a law in Scotland, so that's a question for the Scottish Parliament, yes, but what is it? your opinion you have an opinion about it what do you think I'm about to give it to you I apologize I do I apologize carry on I'm sorry you caught me while I was drinking some tea, I wasn't at all Waiting for you to see me again, forgive me. The position in Westminster, as I say, is a Scottish issue, but the position in Westminster is that the law as it stands is sufficient in England and Wales, so we will do it.

I am not going to copy what the Scottish Parliament has done. I think this is a clear example of why what the SNP has done in Hollywood is unacceptable. Look, what are you trying to do here? You are trying to reach a position of tolerance and respect. for the freedoms of the people, but also for the protected characteristics of the people, and establishing a

criminal

law will not take you to that position of Tolerance, it should be, it should be done by listening and understanding and, as I said, respecting the rights of the people and their own views the law as it stands says that if someone has gone through gender reassignment their transgender identity is protected under equality law if someone has gone from a position of hostility it has caused a

hate

crime and that is something that the

police

would have to investigate in the same way as if a hate crime had been committed against someone because of any other protected characteristic, whether they were a woman, gay or disabled, that quality law has existed in the UK for a long time , it is something that the Los Angeles party instigated the last time they attacked the government, that regime has stood the test of time in England and Welles we believe it works well as it is currently written and the S&P is now realizing that it does not it can just be

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ized um often difficult and tried um uh debate we need to work on as a population in this country what do you think of JK presenting herself as an individual?

What is your feeling about her? I mean, basically, what? In fact, what she is saying is that you can make all the changes you want in a transgender person in any direction, but what you can't change is the biology and you can't change the chromosomes, the XX chromosome or the XY chromosome, no. you can change that. So in her opinion and that of many others, a transgender woman is still biologically a man and she says it's not an offense and it's not even cruel to say how you feel about her position on that specifically. I think she's right. that the law as it stands in Scotland is ineffective for the reasons I have just set out and she challenged the police in Scotland to implement it and that has not happened, look we could get into a debate about chromosomes, my first degree was in human bioscience so it's a personal interest of mine but I think the fact here from a policy perspective is that we all need to make sure that we're having a reasonable conversation here because ultimately it's the people in their um their lives are at the center of this debate, whether it's women who rightly want to protect their protected characteristics and many of the policies that have come out of that, you know, women have fought for these rights for many decades, their right to have those protections in the law. but also for transgender people who have the right to identify as transgender, that's how they live, their truth should not be heard by Americans about it, and they should be given the freedom and respect to do so, now there are some difficult political questions.

That, you know, doesn't have easy answers for them, but we should find a way to be able to talk about those with a sense of tolerance, love and respect instead of criminalizing people's opinions and behavior. While we have it, can I talk to you? about, well, the polls, I know you'll be happy to talk to us, but we understand that there will be no complacency, seeing pep talks within the union that, actually, you know, don't get carried away with that. it's a foregone conclusion because, you know, everything will be reduced the next day, but there has also been a sharp drop in labor membership, hasn't there been in the last two months a drop of 23,000 according to figures published by the national executive committee and that? seems to have overtaken politics in Gaza, this stance on the ceasefire as well as the U-turn on green investment, is this a concern for you?

Well, first of all, you are right in saying that there is no complacency and we are told that every week, because the polls are not a prediction of the future, they are a snapshot of today, we do not know when the general elections will be, and although the Conservatives have clearly failed on almost every measure in the past. 14 years, we know we have a huge amount of work to do to earn the trust, respect and votes of voters across the country - not least because we performed so poorly under Jeremy Corbin in 2019 that the scale of the challenge is historic .

Um and huge operationally for us to achieve it in terms of Labor Party membership numbers. I saw that it was reported. I haven't seen any data on the reasons why those members left. I don't suppose they'll ask them when they leave, but I actually don't know if party membership goes up and down all the time. There was obviously a huge increase in membership in the Labor Party under Jeremy Corbin and many of Jeremy Corbin's supporters preferred a protest party rather than one. party that has to make difficult decisions around trade-offs in its preparation for government in the hope that we can govern the country that they could have chosen to have left the Labor party for that reason, okay, that's their decision, all What I know is that we have still many Labor Party members across the country.

I think more than any other party he still works hard week after week knocking on doors talking to the public. Well, answer your questions. Can I just ask you a really fundamental question? um, I mean, you mentioned the performance of the Labor Party in the last election under Corbin, uh, and at least then one knew exactly what the Labor Party was for, and under Tony Blair, when he came in in 1997, you knew what the Party was for. Labor, could you put? In a couple of sentences it is very difficult nowadays to know what work is and what it is for.

I mean, if an alien came down as an intelligent being from another planet and sat in front of you and told you what you were good for, how would you sum it up? Well, it is very clear that he established his five missions for our country a long time ago. You could ask him to set them down in a sense, what he thought Jeremy Corbin represented or, indeed, what Tony Blair represented. Tony Blair had a pledge card that he will remember. that he had five priorities, we have five missions in the Labor party now the manifesto is in the form of a draw at the moment we expected an election in May to be able to publish this, but Richi Sunak has bottled it and has not called it. the normal way that manifestos are published once the elections have been called and which will lay out in as much detail as anyone wants, frankly, how those five missions will be implemented in terms of political legislation and spending priorities across the country, which What will people know? is that under a Labor government you can see that our parties have changed under K Armor's leadership and that when it comes to our five missions to get the economy back on track, the delay in the NHS fixed our schools and the opportunities for young people to police our streets again and protect our borders and decarbonize the electrical system by 20 30 to meet our Net Zero commitments, we have a solid and very clear plan to turn the page on 14 years of failure and start with naal Ral, you We'll leave you with Raise your tea, we'll leave, we'll let you have your tea in peace, Mr.

J. Thank you very much.