Rowling is one of the only cultural elites who had the courage and foresight to oppose and expose a violent, totalitarian movement perpetrating the greatest medical scandal since eugenics. She leveraged her fame, her wealth, and her cultural power to amplify and support the beleaguered activists who had been battling the ascendant transgender movement for years.

The past six months have been tough for the transgender movement; the past week has been terrible. President Donald Trump has signed a string of executive orders targeting gender ideology, affirming that the U.S. government recognizes only the male-female sex binary, protecting minors “from chemical and surgical mutilation,” and targeting LGBT indoctrination in schools. In Canada this week, two large-scale studies highlighted, once again, that evidence for the efficacy of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers is weak to the point of non-existence. This confirms the UK National Health Service’s Cass Review, published last April, which condemned the use of transgender “treatments” in minors.

A decade ago, the transgender movement was ascendant. Now, the pillars of their ideology are being broken across the West. The coalition of activists that has brought this about—from social conservatives to radical feminists, from Elon Musk to J.K. Rowling—is a truly strange one. There are many who deserve a portion of the credit for these victories, but perhaps no single figure has had the impact of J.K. Rowling, who on April 1st of last year, days before the Cass Review was published, single-handedly neutered Scotland’s hate speech bill.

The Scottish government’s Hate Crime and Public Order Act 2021, designed to replace the previous common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel, had finally come into effect after years of ineffectual pushback. It prohibits the vague offence of “stirring up hate” against anyone based on a range of characteristics, including “transgender identity.” The law was deliberately vague for maximum chilling effect, and trans activists triumphantly announced that “misgendering” and other public objections to their ideology were now illegal.

Rowling took aim and fired. First, she posted a string of tweets sarcastically referring to various trans-identified male sexual predators as “women.” She ended the thread by throwing down the gauntlet to the Scottish authorities:

Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren’t women at all, but men, every last one of them.

In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women’s and girls’ single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, the injustice of women’s jobs, honours and opportunities being taken by trans-identified men, and the reality and immutability of biological sex …

Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.

I’m currently out of the country, but if what I’ve written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment. If you agree with the views set out in this tweet, please retweet it.

She ended with a challenge: #ArrestMe. It was retweeted over 35,000 times. The Scottish government folded.

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