Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s controversial plans to change gender law have been heckled by a feminist activist, and JK Rowling has sent the heckler a crate of champagne in response.
JK Rowling Sends Feminist Some Champagne After She Heckled Scotland Leader Nicola Sturgeon’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill
During Sturgeon’s address on ending male violence against women, Alexandra Darroch disrupted the First Minister, asserting that ‘paedophiles, sex offenders, and rapists’ were ‘self-identifying in Scotland with the permission of the SNP leader.
JK Rowling, an opponent of Sturgeon’s proposals to allow Scots to self-identify their legal gender, vowed to send the activist ‘a crate of her favourite tipple.’ And Darroch has revealed that Rowling is coming good with her promise by giving a ‘case of excellent wine.’
With that being said, Darroch did not hold back on her disdain for Sturgeon’s plans. In her comments, she said: “It’s got all the hallmarks even with the language, the compelled speech, suppression of speech, punishing women and police turning up at women’s homes.”
The law in question, the Gender Recognition Reform Bill, means a person seeking a gender recognition certificate will no longer need to provide proof of a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
The duration an applicant must live as their acquired gender will be reduced from two years to three months, with an additional three-month period for consideration. Lastly, the law will make it much easier for transgender people to switch genders, lowering the age limit from 18 to 16, and simplifying the procedure.
The fans on social media could not help but laugh at Rowling’s response. And in the process of doing so, they did commend her for putting her name out there, knowing that she was bound to receive some backlash.
One person wrote: “Well great to hear but she needs to be careful there [are] tens of thousands in Scotland who if they get the chance would do the same and that’s a lot of champagne but well done to her.”
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