Sunak Backs JK Rowling’s Challenge to Scottish Hate Law

Published on April 2, 2024

The prime minister has defended JK Rowling after she challenged Police Scotland to use the Scottish National Party’s (SNP’s) new hate crime legislation to arrest her for stating biological reality on social media. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak backed the author, saying in a statement given to The Telegraph on Monday: “People should not be criminalised for stating simple facts on biology. We believe in free speech in this country, and Conservatives will always protect it.” Ms. Rowling, who lives in Scotland, wrote a thread on social media platform X on Monday, naming high-profile males who claim to be transgender women, before identifying them all as men, “every last one of them.”...

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