JK Rowling of Harry Potter fame comes out in response to the criticism over her recent tweets that had references to trans people.
The row began last weekend, after Rowling responded to a headline on an online article discussing “people who menstruate” by writing in a tweet: ‘I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?’. This enraged a lot of the twitterati, including celebrities like Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Eddie Redmayne.
On Wednesday, Rowling said she was motivated to address transgender issues through her Twitter account because of what she sees as an increasingly misogynistic society.
“We’re living through the most misogynistic period I’ve experienced,” she continued. She further stated that after years of being in the public eye, she hadn’t spoken about issues like these because she was a survivor of domestic and sexual assault.
Additionally, she said that talking about those issues increased the trauma it caused, also stating that it was something she had shared with her daughter and didn’t want to put it out into the world without her consent.