JK Rowling could be arrested in Scotland for making a series of posts misgendering transgender women, under a newly-enacted hate crime law, a politician in the UK has warned.

“It could be reported and it could be investigated,” Siobhian Brown, the Scottish National Party’s community safety minister, told the Telegraph of Rowling’s posts.

Scotland’s hate crime law went into effect on Monday.

“Whether or not the police would think it was criminal is up to Police Scotland for that,” she added.

Rowling was born in England, but has called Scotland home for most of her life.

She had earlier challenged police in the country of 5.4 million people to arrest her — even using the hashtag #arrestme and inviting those who agreed with her to share her lengthy X post.

“Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal,” she wrote.

“I’m currently out of the country, but if what I’ve written here qualifies as an offense under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment,” said Rowling, who lives in Edinburgh.