Calling these trans criminals 'men' could lead to arrest under SNP's new hate crime laws: How you could go to jail for 'misgendering' double rapist, paedophile and sex attacker who assaulted children in supermarket toilets

JK Rowling has decided to play chicken with Police Scotland over the SNP's new hate crime laws by naming a number of high-profile trans women and calling them men.

The legislation, which came into force on Easter Monday, is the brainchild of Humza Yousaf from his time as Scottish justice secretary.

Siobhian Brown, Yousaf's minister for victims and community safety, has insisted that anyone risked being prosecuted for 'misgendering' someone online under the new law. 

And the Harry Potter author has immediately sought to test the legislation and Ms Brown's mettle by naming ten trans women on Twitter on April 1 and saying: 'The above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them'.

In a series of highly-sarcastic April Fools’ tweets to her 14million followers, Ms Rowling first named a series of high profile trans sex offenders who identify as women, including rapist Isla Bryson. 

Calling violent double rapist Bryson a 'lovely Scottish lass', Ms Rowling then turned her fire on sex attacker Katie Dolatowski, calling the trans paedophile a 'fragile flower'.

Transgender charity shop worker Samantha Norris wrote out sexual fantasies about a child and had a 'New Year's resolution to have sex with a girl under 10'. Trans  butcher Andrew Miller, who uses the name Amy George, kidnapped and sexually abused a little girl during a horrific 27-hour ordeal, and was jailed for 20 years last autumn.

As police face pressure to arrest Rowling for calling a trans woman 'he' from activists, these are the trans criminals JK has named in her tweets.

Isla Bryson

Isla Bryson was a shaven-headed Adam Graham with a Mike Tyson-style face tattoo when carrying out two rapes in 2016 and 2019 after meeting the victims online.

Bryson's estranged wife Shonna Graham said after the trial: 'The way I see it is he is a man, he done the crime as a man… he should do the time in a man's jail'.

Bryson, who claimed to have had gender issues since the age of four, began transitioning from a man to a woman in 2020 after being charged with the rapes. 

The rapist has been taking hormones but had not had gender reassignment surgery.

When brought to court, Bryson had first appeared in the dock in July 2019 as a man but by the the start of a six-day trial had wanted to be known as Isla Bryson.

The defendant had attacked the first victim at a flat in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire having met on the Badoo dating site while known as Adam.

This was immediately after Bryson's marriage had ended.

The second victim was raped at a flat in Drumchapel, Glasgow on June 27 2019. They met on the social media site Bigo.

The victim recalled feeling 'crushed' as the attacker she knew as Adam forced himself on her.

She stated: 'I told him to stop and he did not. He kept going. That is when I closed my eyes and let him do what he wanted to do.'

Bryson was convicted of both rapes and sentenced to eight years in prison but incredibly was then sent to an all-female prison.

The sex attacker was initially held at Cornton Vale women's prison in Stirling. Two days later the prisoner was moved to a male wing of HMP Edinburgh.

Nicola Sturgeon was sucked into the scandal and then said she believed the double rapist was 'almost certainly' claiming to be transgender as an 'easy way out'. 

Katie Dolatowski 

Paedophile Katie Dolatowski sexually assaulted a ten-year-old girl in a Morrisons toilet just weeks after using a phone to spy on another little girl in an Asda women's toilet in 2018.

Dolatowski, who was born a man, later got into a Leeds Women's Aid domestic abuse refuge under an alias. 

But in 2022 the sex offender was sent to Cornton Vale, a women's prison in Stirling, for breaching the terms of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order.

But in 2023 was held in a male jail for 78 days after breaching bail conditions following release from prison for assaulting a fellow inmate in Polmont Young Offenders Institute in 2021. 

Dolatowski is vocal on social media, backing the Scottish Prison Service over the scandal involving rapist Isla Bryson who was also sent to Cornton Vale. 

The paedophile also praised Nicola Sturgeon as a 'great first minister', adding: 'It's a shame that people are trying to make out her out as an evil person.'

Ms Sturgeon was behind Scotland's gender recognition reforms, which were later abandoned.

Samantha Norris 

Charity shop worker Samantha Norris is transitioning to become a woman - but was jailed last month for two years for possessing thousands of 'abhorrent' child abuse images.

Norris' New Year's resolution to have sex with child, it later emerged.

The 56-year-old of Ringwood, Hampshire, was previously cleared by a jury of flashing to two 11-year-old girls following a trial at Southampton Court in January.

But on March 16, Norris pleaded guilty to separate charges of possessing 16,000 images of children - including about 2,000 still and 121 moving images of category A seriousness - as well as an extreme porn image involving an animal.

The images included children aged as young as three, with others showing youngsters aged about six in 'distress and pain', the court heard.

Passing sentence, Judge Rowland stated Norris had written notes of sexual fantasies about a young child, as well as a 'New Year's resolution to have sex with a girl under 10'.

He told the defendant: 'It's all about you Samantha Norris and not the victims.

'You do not accept they are victims, you have distorted views and you do not feel your offending should be treated as serious - how would a right-minded person think about that?

'Your views are alarming and complex - you present a high risk of harm to children.'

The defendant entered the pleas after being cleared by a jury of other charges of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child and of indecent exposure.

As well as the prison sentence, Judge Nicholas Rowland made Norris subject to a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years. 

He added: 'It's pretty blatant to me that you decided not to enter guilty pleas (earlier) as these pleas would have gone in front of the jury of the other matters.'

During the trial for the exposure and sexual activity charges, of which Norris was cleared, the prosecution had claimed that the defendant had deliberately flashed  two youngsters through the window of her flat.

But Norris, who worked at a Sue Ryder charity shop, described being a naturist who was 'habitually naked' at home.

Norris insisted the children could only have spotted any nudity if they had been 'spying'.

Norris also complained about receiving abuse from youngsters in the town and accused the girls of being 'taunting'.

Amy George 

Transgender butcher Andrew Miller, who uses the name Amy George, kidnapped and sexually abused a little girl during a horrific 27-hour ordeal, and was jailed for 20 years last autumn.

Miller was dressed as a woman when he lured the primary school pupil - who did not know him - into his car as she walked home and then trapped her in his house in the Scottish Borders.

The 53-year-old, who uses the name Amy George, subjected the girl to repeated attacks before she escaped after calling police on his landline when the predator was asleep.

At the time of his arrest, Miller was wearing a bra, women's underwear, tights and one silicone breast – the other had become dislodged during a struggle. Miller later told detectives he did not abduct the girl and that it was 'all a mistake'. 

A judge called the ordeal 'every parent's worst nightmare', asking the paedophile: 'Would a girl have willingly entered your car if you had presented as a man?' 

Miller, who is in the process of transitioning and was the proprietor of a butcher shop, pleaded guilty to charges of abduction, sexual assault, watching pornography in the presence of a child and possessing 242 indecent images of children.

Miller, who was addressed as a male by a court in Edinburgh, was handed a 20-year prison sentence.

Judge Lord Arthurson described Miller's offences as 'abhorrent crimes' of the utmost 'deviance and depravity' which were 'the realisation of every parent's worst nightmare'.

Upon sentencing Miller he said: 'The narrative was frankly nauseating in terms of its depravity and criminal sexual deviancy.

'On your arrest you denied the abduction and preposterously said you had acted in a motherly way.

'Abduction of young children for the purposes of sexual torment is a mercifully rare crime in this jurisdiction.'

Lord Arthurson told Miller that his crimes were the 'realisation of every parent's worst nightmare' had had an 'incalculable' impact on his victim and her family.

He said: 'The narrative of offending in your case was frankly nauseating in its level of depravity and criminal deviance.'