It’s Trans Day of Remembrance again? Still? Always?

A Scottish council has been accused by JK Rowling of honouring the death of a notoriously violent transgender prisoner by flying a flag above its headquarters.

Edinburgh City Council flew the pink, blue and white-striped flag above the city chambers on Wednesday to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Why? Why did Edinburgh City Council do that? Does it fly a flag for a Day of Remembrance for all the sets of people who are neglected or oppressed or abused or exploited before it bothers with people who have luxury fantasy identities?

In a message posted on X, formerly Twitter, the local authority said it was a “day to remember people who have lost their lives in acts of transgender violence”.

What people? There aren’t any. Trans people are one of the safer demographics. The local authority should talk to a woman now and then.

Feminist campaigners said the only Scot included in the official list of those being commemorated was Tiffany Scott, who was one of the UK’s most violent inmates before [his] death earlier this year.

Scott, who was previously known as Andrew Burns, had been convicted of a string of offences, including stalking a 13-year-old girl from behind bars by sending letters.

The criminal came out as transgender in 2016 but is understood never to have begun any physical transitioning nor to have possessed a gender recognition certificate.

And he was in no way a victim of violence against trans people. One, he was a perp himself, and two, he was not a victim of violence.

Questions were also raised about Scott’s inclusion on an international list of people being commemorated for TDOR as there had been no suggestion that the criminal’s death was linked to transphobia.

For Women Scotland (FWS), a feminist campaign group that led opposition to Nicola Sturgeon’s self-ID gender reforms, posted: “So Edinburgh City Council flew a flag for this violent man? Who made that decision?”

Marion Calder, a FWS director, said: “It’s absolutely ridiculous for Edinburgh Council to raise this flag. It’s virtue signalling for one of the most dangerous prisoners that Scotland has ever had.”

Hey now, he called himself Tiffany. Isn’t that enough??

When Scott died earlier this year, [he] was serving an indefinite sentence under an order for lifelong restriction and had been described as one of the most “menacing people” in the Scottish prison system. Scott had been deemed an “unmanageable risk to public safety” and could only ever have been released if it was decided this was no longer the case.

The convict had attacked a nurse in Cheshire in 2010 and committed a series of other offences while in custody. These included attacking a prison nurse with a chair, punching and attempting to bite prison officers, smearing excrement in a cell and ripping up “tear-proof” clothing in a suicide attempt.

A Hannibal Lecter wannabe.

Not a victim of “anti-trans” violence.