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J.K. Rowling Tells Police to Arrest Her Under the New Hate Crime Laws

'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling has dared the police to arrest her as new hate crime laws come into effect in the U.K.

J.K. RowlingKarwai Tang/WireImageThe 58-year-old, who has regularly voiced her disagreement with the Scottish government’s views on transgender rights, slammed the new rules — which are to be enforced in the country starting Tuesday, April, 2 — in a series of messages posted via X. Rowling’s comments came after the Scottish parliament warned that Scots “could be investigated” for wrongly labeling someone’s gender online under the new rules of The Hate Crime and Public Order Act. The new measures aim to tackle the harm caused by hatred and prejudice, extending protections from abusive behavior to people on grounds including age, disability, religion, sexual orientation and transgender identity.

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