The Scottish Conservatives said that if complaints continue to be made at the same speed over the next 12 months officers 1.38 million crimes could be reported.
Siobhian Brown (pictured) says misinformation and hysteria have led to wrongful assumptions about the legislation despite someone making a false complaint to police under her name.
Police Scotland says it will not be taking further action against the writer for a thread of tweets she penned on April 1 on a number of trans women she referred to as men, every last one of them .
Reports were made against the Harry Potter author but police have assessed her tweets against Scotland s new hate crime laws and found they did not breach the legislation.
The Harry Potter author had dared Police Scotland to arrest her on Monday for describing a string of prominent trans women as men before the force confirmed no action would be taken.