I literally could not disagree any harder with all this.
Nobody who has actually read her essay on this topic or her regular comments since or indeed listened to the seven hour podcast about it could reasonably accuse her of "happily and uncritically [getting] into bed with the openly misogynist far right".
In my experience, the people who fling this accusation around with as much enthusiasm as they use the misogynistic slur "TERF" have not taken even the smallest amount of trouble to find out what she has actually said, much less understand her reasoning. Nor are they ever capable of quoting any "transphobic" thing she has said or explaining why, in their opinion, it is transphobic. Instead they are full of creative alternatives to providing any such evidence, such as, "Everything she's ever said on this subject is transphobic" and "Google it, I'm not doing the work for you."
These are people who get their political opinions in a package deal from their preferred political tribe and do not engage in any critical thinking whatsoever.
The fact that JK Rowling and other gender critical feminists have diverged from their long term political allies on this subject actually indicates that they have thought long and hard about it. Humans are social animals and most of us don't like to leave the protection and comfort of the rest of the herd, or be ostracised for going against the opinion of the majority.
JK Rowling and other gender critical feminists have explained time and time again their reasoning for the position they have taken.
The fact that the far right acknowledge that biological sex is real, binary and immutable does not make this a far right point of view.
Rather, the fact that much of the political left has taken the position that sex is changeable, that men and women should be defined according to sexist gender stereotypes instead, and that female people don't have the right to say no to male people, shows that the left has lost its goddamn mind.
JK Rowling and others have parted company with the rest of the political left in relation to this one issue because they are feminists, and because in relation to this issue, the left is every bit as misogynistic as the far right.
Women in America are faced with a binary choice between a party which knows what women are and doesn't believe they should have the right to an abortion, and a party which believes that female people should have the right to an abortion but otherwise denies that female people are a coherent group which we need a word for and which needs its own sex based rights.
The "liberal feminists" in the US (who are in fact neither liberal nor feminist) should probably stop flinging shit at JK Rowling (as if she is in any way responsible for the actions of the president of their country) and start asking themselves whether, if they stopped arguing about pronouns and started centering actual women in their feminism, they might have a few more rights.
Women in America are lacking basic rights that they would have in every other developed country in the world (and a fair few developing ones), such as the right to paid maternity leave and the right not to be fired for daring to get pregnant.
The only thing Americans have to teach the rest of the world about feminism, is how not to do it. They are quite frankly complete fucking numpties who are largely unaware of anything that happens outside their own borders. Their most celebrated feminist academic is a woman who pretends not to be a woman or even know what one is because she thinks that being one is so deeply uncool.
They are, to a certain extent, a product of their poor education system, fucked up political system and low quality media.
Here in the UK, we actually have a viable alternative. We have left wing feminists like JK Rowling who aren't afraid to speak out and say, "Yes, trans rights matter, but not at the expense of women's rights."
We have feminists who actually speak out for the women who can't necessarily speak for themselves, such as the female prisoners incarcerated with male rapists, the sexual assault survivors denied appropriate care, the elderly female patients raped on single sex hospital wards, the vulnerable children being pushed towards medicalisation by ghoulish doctors, the women fired from their jobs for daring to question it all.
We have politicians on both the left and right who are increasingly willing to speak out and say, "This isn't right. Women's rights matter. Safeguarding matters. We need to rethink how we are doing things."
We also have a Supreme Court which has just confirmed that JK Rowling is right. That women are female, trans women are men, and our rights aren't subordinate to theirs.
So if you are from the UK and you are still getting your tired old opinions about gender critical feminism from uneducated muppets in America, that's on you.
And if you're from America, welcome to Mumsnet, but but your liberal faux-minism won't wash here. We're made of stronger stuff.