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Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

I'm Natasha Rose and I'm joined by Lucy Dunn and Isabel Hardman.

The hate crime laws in Scotland have been in place for five days now and it has caused a

Twitter storm by J.K. Rowling on April the 1st, also April Fool's Day, she

listed sex offenders who describe themselves as transgender alongside

other trans activists.

Isabel, how do you think these first five days of Humseus' big piece of legislation has gone.

I mean I think probably as well as everyone had predicted it was going to go in that it has

just become a storm about bad drafting about

police PR strategy. So Jacob Rolling as soon as the law became active was

tweeting to see where the boundaries of that law were. I don't think it's a surprise that

police Scotland said that it didn't meet the threshold for criminal activity because it would have

been a very easy way for this law to descend into a farce very quickly if they have

taken action against JK Rolling but the point that the author has since made is that if somebody else if another woman makes a comment about biological sex

and is arrested then she will tweet the same comment so a sort of I am Spartacus moment, just to test again

whether this is just a media management strategy in the first few weeks and then you might actually

get, you know, police turning up at the home of somebody

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