To be oblivious to the issue people have with JKR? I thought she was a feminist. What have I missed?

Lots of women too. Women are not a monolith and views on trans rights vary among women too.

There is no way these are genuine questions on your part.

I think YABU if you have only recently become aware of this, to be completely honest. Have you really heard nothing about it over the last few years??

She's a great supporter of women's rights. It was probably a misogynist who you were speaking to.

Some people (many?) disagree with her stance on trans rights but you could have discovered that with a 10 second Google.

Following on from her essay, she also contributed to the book 'The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht' which details the pushback by women in Scotland against the erosion of women's rights by an institutionally captured Government and national organisations.

https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/jk-rowling-writes-essay-on-standing-up-for-women-for-new-book-on-campaign-to-protect-rights-4629745

Yes women as well, sad as that it

edited to say just look how Emma Watson has treated JK

There is only an issue to some people because they don’t like her thoughts on the fact that women should be protected and be entitled to protected places, supported by and employing women only hence her spending a lot of her money providing this

Those who dislike her, in my opinion, are normally the women’s who feel it’s acceptable that women should be put in their place and allow men to do whatever they want

The latest thing is she is "racist" because some fans did not like the role of Snape being cast to a Black man. There doesnt seem to be any actual evidence of this .

Apparently believing in biological sex and single sex spaces is transphobic. Talking about personal experiences which inform this view is "weaponising trauma" and also transphobic.

AND the woman had the audacity to write the case for her own prosecution. Feel free to read and make up your own mind.

https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/

Warren Smith talks to a student about this here, as an exercise in critical thinking:

Not to mention brave, insightful, compassionate, practical, principled, generous and witty. And can write a cracking yarn.

If the world had more people like her it would be a much better place.

She's the witch they can't burn and it makes them really mad.

All of the above plus she is a terrible writer because she didn't invent the entire British school system (yes really. I've seen loads of threads by people who thought she invented the house and prefect system and were annoyed that she didn't)

She's racist because the wizarding world has a class system (pure vs mudblood, depite that also being based on real life)

She didn't write original material because other authors hadn't written about magic schools and good vs evil.

Basically she's a successful, intelligent woman and people hate that.

Personally I'd sell my kids to meet her! Well I'd consider it at least !

She's funded the University of Edinburgh to be world leaders in research into MS which affects Scotland and women in particular disproportionately -

'In Scotland, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is more prevalent in women than men, with a national female-to-male ratio of 2.3:1. Scotland also has one of the highest rates of MS diagnoses in the world'

https://clinical-brain-sciences.ed.ac.uk/news-archive-2014-2021/news-jul-dec-2019/jk-rowling-donates-further-ps15m-multiple-sclerosis

Funds the only single sex rape crisis service in Edinburgh and the Lothians (totally. Down to the teabags)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-63943766.amp

Helped to fund a rescue mission to get women lawyers out of Afghanistan -

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/harry-potter-author-jk-rowling-helped-afghan-lawyers-flee-the-taliban/

Has set up a legal fund to help women facing discrimination by their employers and services which fail to provide single sex services as stated in the EQA2010 and which was clarified as should have been the case since 2010 as was clarified in the Supreme Court judgement -

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25190054.jk-rowling-fund-gender-critical-womens-cases-employers/

And she does loads of other stuff too. This is just off the top of my head.

But because she won't cede women's rights to men's demands, she's seen as the devil.

And she's rich enough not to be cancelled which really pisses off the women hating misogynists.

She's also an evil holocaust denier for not recognising the terrible time the Trans had during the holocaust. She also fails to appreciate that the nazis came after the Trans long before they turned their attention to Jews

Someone I know who was a JKR hater hadn't even read the twitter post that caused the initial fury. They had just heard they should be outraged so were.

It's just fashionable to hate her...shows you are "kind" and "protective of vulnerable" trans. Interestingly many people actually support her views, i.e protect women's spaces, don't allow men in women's but assume she has been hostile, which isn't the case at all.

Feminism is not one single thing. There are different views within feminism.

Surely you haven't missed her conflict with the transgender community?

JKR is a trans-exclusionary feminist, I'm a trans-exclusionary feminist. There isn't just one set of beliefs, people disagree.

Some people see the centring of womens needs as a threat because they think that everything should revolve around men and their dicks.

A lot of people have simply accepted the option that JKR is "transphobic" (I've recently seen suggestions she's also "homophobic", which - as I'm a gay woman - I find hilarious) without any actuproof.

My American friend said she was "transphobic" and when I asked for examples, she admitted that she'd simply been told this by other friends.

Basically she is rather clever, incredibly rich, extremely witty and values courage above all other personal qualities and so refuses to be cowed. Quite a lot of people - particularly men - find those qualities - particularly in a woman - rather upsetting.

Yes she is a feminist
that’s why she is interested in women’s rights and children’s health abs well being
where women has the buological And legal meaning
add to that she is rich and successful and a generally nice person and of course it’s fashionable to hate her - oh and she’s not young and doesn’t dress to titalat
edit to add that she doesn’t exactly totally fit the gender norm box yet doesn’t see herself as transgender as a result, doesn’t think there is anything wrong with her

JKR stands up for women’s rights, including the right to have single sex spaces in situations where we may be vulnerable. This is because history has shown us numerous times that a proportion of men are dangerous. According to some people, this means JKR is transphobic, which is absolute bollocks.