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Posted: 2023-10-19T22:08:05Z | Updated: 2023-10-19T22:27:44Z

J.K. Rowling just revealed her commitment to saying transphobic things.

The Harry Potter author claimed shed happily go to jail in order to keep misgendering people in an incensed tweet on Tuesday.

Overreacting to unverified reports about the U.K.s Labour party and their plans to amend an already existing hate crime law to better protect gender identity, Rowling wrote, Ill happily do two years if the alternative is compelled speech and forced denial of the reality and importance of sex.

Bring on the court case, I say. Itll be more fun than Ive ever had on a red carpet, she went on.

Rowlings response seemed to be a bad faith interpretation of the Labours reported proposal, which was described in an article by the Daily Mail last week.

The U.K. already recognizes hate crimes based on race, religion, disability, sexual orientation and transgender identity. And crimes motivated by racial or religious factors can be classified as aggravated offenses that carry a harsher sentence.

According to the Daily Mail, the Labour Party wants this aggravated classification to also be available for crimes motivated by gender identity. The outlet quoted an anonymous conservative politician and anti-trans activists who speculated this could lead to people being imprisoned solely for deliberately calling someone by the incorrect pronouns.

I'll happily do two years if the alternative is compelled speech and forced denial of the reality and importance of sex. Bring on the court case, I say. It'll be more fun than I've ever had on a red carpet.

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I'll happily do two years if the alternative is compelled speech and forced denial of the reality and importance of sex. Bring on the court case, I say. It'll be more fun than I've ever had on a red carpet.

J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 17, 2023

No policy changes have been presented as of yet, but over the summer , Labour leaders did vow to modernize, simplify and reform gender legislation.

Current U.K. legal guidance maintains that misgendering someone can be deemed criminal if used as a deliberate tactic during the commission of an offense.

This policy has been challenged in several cases in the U.K. in recent years, however, and there does not appear to be a legal consensus on its interpretation at this time.

Offering a more curt rejection of the yet to be substantiated policy proposal in another post, Rowling tweeted No back at a photo of the phrase, repeat after us: trans women are women being projected on a government building.