the “gender identity” movement began to take root. Initially, it was recognized as a mental disorder. In fact, gender dysphoria (previously gender identity disorder) is still defined in the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” as a “marked incongruence between their experienced or expressed gender and the one they were assigned at birth.”

But, as the movement became more mainstream, somehow, it changed from a person’s inability to connect their physical biology with the concept of what they feel like to an established fact: They are who they say they are regardless of the physical evidence.

So, those who continued to believe in two genders were suddenly outcasts. But at least so far, they were not criminals. However, that may not be the case for long. Author J.K. Rowling could face police investigation for her comments about transgender people under Scotland’s controversial new hate crime legislation that went into effect on Monday, the U.K.’s The Independent reported. The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act criminalizes hate speech towards protected groups based on “age, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation and transgender identity.”

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