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It was no April Fool’s joke.

Harry Potter author-turned culture warrior J.K. Rowling kicked off the month with an 11-tweet social media thread in which she argued 10 transgender women were men — and dared Scottish police to arrest her.

Rowling’s intervention came as a controversial new Scottish government law, aimed at protecting minority groups from hate crimes, took effect. And it landed amid a fierce debate over both the legal status of transgender people in Scotland and over what actually constitutes a hate crime.

Already the law has generated far more international buzz than is normal for legislation passed by a small nation’s devolved parliament.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The family Hominidae (hominids), the great apes, include four genera comprising three extant species of orangutans and their subspecies, two extant species of gorillas and their subspecies, two extant species of panins (bonobos and chimpanzees) and their subspecies, and humans in a single extant subspecies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm wrong, thanks! I was thinking gorillas and that humans were only technically primates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We're also monkeys, if there is such a thing. Some monkeys are more closely related to apes (and thus to us) than they are to other monkeys, so if there's any group that can be called the "monkey clade," we are in it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Nope, we're also great apes! We just always tend to think we're above other animals.