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* A strange new form of temporary blindness has broken out among Scottish politicians.<br />None of them could read placards calling for violence against women while standing inches away from them, yet they were instantly cured when photos of them posing with the signs hit the press.

** Post on X (22 January 2024), as cited in Jenness Mitchell [https://news.sky.com/story/scottish-politicians-and-jk-rowling-voice-anger-over-decapitate-terfs-sign-at-pro-trans-rally-in-glasgow-12793544 "Scottish politicians and JK Rowling voice anger over 'decapitate terfs' sign at pro-trans rally in Glasgow"], ''Sky News'' (23 January 2023)

** Three SNP MPs and one SNP MSP were photographed at a Glasgow Royal Concert Hall protest on 21 January against the Westminster government's blocking of the [[w:Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill|Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill]]. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/22/decapitate-terfs-signs-pro-trans-rally-attended-snp-politicians/ The politicians] all denied having seen the placard and denounced it.

* Never forget, [[Nicola Sturgeon|Sturgeon]], her government and supporters have insisted that it is ludicrous to imagine anyone would dress in women's clothes to get access to vulnerable women and girls. Wouldn't happen. Everyone is who they say they are. To question this is hate.

** From a series of tweets quoted in [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/01/27/nicola-sturgeon-gender-law-opponents-womens-rights-transphobic/ "Nicola Sturgeon: Gender law opponents use women’s rights as 'cloak' to be transphobic"] ''The Telegraph'' (27 January 2023)

** Rowling was responding to Sturgeon's announcement that a transgender rapist would be moved out of a women's prison.

** An untransitioned trans women [[w:Isla Bryson case|Isla Bryson]] (born Adam Graham) was convicted in Glasgow in January 2023 of raping two women (at the time of the crimes, the offender was unquestionably male), but began to identify as a woman after being charged. The individual was initially held in a Scottish women's prison.

* [To [[w:Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] frontbencher [[Lisa Nandy]]] You said rapists should be transferred to women's prisons if they [[w:Gender self-identification|self-),identify]] as women.

January 202as cited in identify]] as women. You called [[w:Woman's Place UK|Woman’s Place UK]] a hate group.

* Given that you're one of the biggest reasons many women on the Left no longer trust Labour to defend their rights, do you stand by these comments?

** Comments on X (formerly known as Twitter), as cited in [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jk-rowling-labour-trans-lisa-nandy-b2428360.html "JK Rowling says Lisa Nandy is reason women on left don't trust Labour"], ''The Independent'' (12 October 2023).

** Rowling was referring to comments Lisa Nandy made at the 2020 Labour Party conference: "So crimes I think that are recorded should be recorded as that person wishes, who has been through that process, received support and self-identified. I think trans women are women and I think trans men are men so I think they should be in the prison of their choosing."

====''The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling'' (2023)====