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Megyn Kelly has warned that America could go the same way as Scotland where JK Rowling has been threatened with arrest under a new law protecting transgender people from 'hate speech'.
The former Fox star has offered to be the Scottish author's voice if her claims that men cannot become women are silenced by her country's new law.
But she warned that the US is following the same path with 'far too many blue states are coming dangerously close to Scotland'.
'Make no mistake – we are heading for a showdown here, too, on this issue,' she warned, 'And it's imperative that we win.'
Scotland's new law adds transgenderism to the category of legally protected characteristics, making it a crime punishable by up to seven years in prison to 'stir up hate' against someone on the basis of their gender identity.
Megyn Kelly told viewers that 'free speech is officially dead in Scotland' as she offered to be JK Rowling's mouthpiece if the Harry Potter author is jailed under the country's new law
Rowling has pledged to keep speaking out on transgender issues and dared police to jail her
Kelly boasted about her freedom of speech but pondered about how long it will last
Rowling dared police to arrest her as the act came into force, tweeting a long and ironic 'April Fool' thread criticizing a series of transgender criminals, activists and sportspeople.
'Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them,' she added.
Rowling, who lives in the Scottish capital Edinburgh, was immediately reported to police when the law came into force on Monday, but Kelly told her she could still say what she wants in the US.
'Whatever true fact you need said about the gender cult, just shoot me a note and I will say it on the air on my show to millions,' the podcaster offered.
'Scotland can't imprison those of us on this side of the pond; (for now) we still have free speech in America, which is why I can say: Men cannot become women. He's are not she's.
'Those surgical wounds are not vaginas. Facial feminization will never make a man female. Men who play women's sports are vile cheaters.
'Men do not belong in women's bathrooms, locker rooms, sororities, prisons or OBGYN offices. Men cannot have babies. Chest feeding is child abuse.'
The Harry Potter author ridiculed the legislation a string of tweets on X where she sarcastically urged her followers to respect 'lovely Scottish lass' Isla Bryon - a convicted double rapist
Rowling sarcastically referred to Dolatowski, a transgender paedophile who assaulted children in supermarket toilets, as 'fragile flower'. Pictured: Dolatowski at Falkirk sheriffs court
The Harry Potter author sarcastically posted a long thread on X/Twitter on transgender women as she criticised Scotland's new Hate Crime Act which came into force on April 1
Scotland's new law does not recognize women as a protected category and has been fiercely divisive in the UK with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak insisting that 'people should not be criminalized for stating simple facts on biology'.
'In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls,' Rowling wrote.
'The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women's and girls' single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, the injustice of women's jobs, honors and opportunities being taken by trans-identified men, and the reality and immutability of biological sex.'
Rowling, who has made an estimated $1 billion fortune from her series of children's books on the boy wizard, has become one of the UK' most prominent figures in the debate on transgender rights since she started speaking out in 2018.
She has received death threats and a torrent of abuse on social media for her views which have also seen the stars of her movie franchise - Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint - distance themselves from her.
She was notably absent from a 2022 Warner Bros special commemorating the 20th anniversary
