JKR's irony meter has exploded - so will yours

I haven't. I've called her JKR. I wouldn't call her Joanne or Jo as (I am very old) to me that would imply that I know her personally, which I don't. If I wanted to refer to her a bit more formally, I'd say J. K. Rowling, I suppose.

Lest we forget, five years ago Dawn Butler went on Good Morning Britain and this claims to be a transcript of what happened:

Presenter Richard Madeley accused the Labour Party of shutting down debate about sex and gender, after two leadership candidates backed calls to expel from the party anyone who questions transgender ideology.
Miss Butler was also asked if people are ‘transphobic’ if they believe there is a biological difference between men who say they are women even if they have not had surgery, and true females.
She said: “What we can’t have is transphobia, we can’t have people who are transphobic.”
She added: “If you’re saying that a trans woman isn’t a woman, then there are issues around that. Talking about penises and vaginas doesn’t help the conversation because then you’re saying that a trans woman isn’t a woman.”
Biological differences
When Madeley asked: “When a child is born, they are identified and observed in a particular sex aren’t they?”, Butler interjected: “A child is born without sex, a child is formed without sex in the beginning”.
She concluded by stating the trans activist slogan, “Trans women are women. Trans men are men”, and suggested that those who don’t agree are making trans people unsafe and contributing to hate crime.

UPDATE – In a later interview with homosexual news website Pink News Butler sought to clarify her remarks.
She said: “The thing is, when you are born, you’re told by the doctor, ‘Congratulations, it’s a boy’ or ‘Congratulations, it’s a girl.’ But I was trying to make the point to him that, you know, it’s also not a given. There’s lots of people that identify as non binary.”

https://www.christian.org.uk/news/dawn-butler-mp-babies-are-born-without-biological-sex/ (Disclaimer: I'm not a Christian but I remember the discussion here at the time, and I would say this is in accordance with what I remember.]