Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tonight backed JK Rowling after she dared police to arrest her under controversial new hate crime laws.
As the legislation came into force in Scotland, the Harry Potter author issued a flurry of social media posts declaring that a string of trans women were men.
The SNP’s Hate Crime Act has been widely condemned amid fears it could be used for political purposes. It introduces offences for threatening or abusive behaviour intended to stir up hatred, which in Scotland previously applied only to race, and includes a possible seven-year jail sentence.
Ms Rowling, a prominent gender-identity critic, included trans campaigners and other individuals in her tweets, referring to them as women.
But she ended the thread by…
