J.K. Rowling has responded to the backlash following her multiple tweets about the transgender community. The author, who came under fire on Saturday, June 6, opened up in a new blog posted on Wednesday, June 10, explaining her comments and detailing her own experiences.“This isn’t an easy piece to write, for reasons that will shortly become clear, but I know it’s time to explain myself on an issue surrounded by toxicity.
I write this without any desire to add to that toxicity,” Rowling, 54, begins. She explains that she first began getting criticized after supporting Maya Forstater, a woman who’d lost her job for what were described as “transphobic” tweets.
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