"A learned woman? What’s one of those when they are at home?"
You tell me. I said 'educated', not 'learned'. ;) You don't need a PhD, but you do need to read some stuff. Take up your argument with your straw man. ;)
JKR has never seemed to me to be on top of the debate about transphobia. She's no idiot - she's just never seemed to feel the need to understand it beyond what her 'common sense' tells her.
I'm baffled that, in this day and age, people are still wont to value their 'common sense' as much as they do. Common sense - that form of knowledge that, a century ago, produced the kind of belief parodied by Harry Enfield (as one poster has seen, but whose implications they've not quite grasped, with their citation of Enfield's hilarious 'Women, know your place'). And opposed to such 'common sense' is always, always, always, 'ideology'. A bit over a century ago there was the 'common sense view' that women wouldn't have it in their delicate brains to vote intelligently, versus the 'ideology' that they could.
These sorts of arguments are feeble, folks. Yes, you really do need to be more than just a woman, or a man, or anything else in order to understand an issue. You need to educate yourself about it. That means at least learning enough to accept that what you consider common sense - or fact - could be just downright, radically, wrong - just as it was, regarding women and their supposed mental limitations, a century ago. (And supposed racial differences, etc, etc ... well, right up to the present day.)
So much blather - no doubt most here will say 'yeah, yeah, I've heard it all before'. I'm well-used to that. But one thing I really do have to spell out: the bulk of 'Ideology' - indoctrination - whatever you want to call it - doesn't happen as a result of formal education (by, implicitly, lefty lecturers at uni), or by reading fanatical works. That's a complete subversion of the truth.
This truth is that ideologically-based views come about as a result of the drip, drip, drip of opinion presented as fact, over years. You pick it up as a result of stuff being shoved at you with your critical faculties either not switched on ... or absent, because you've not been taught about how to develop such critical faculties.
Yes, it absolutely does take more than just 'being a woman' to understand what transphobia is, just as it took more than just being a woman to know what sexism was (and still is). And it takes more than being just a human to know what humanity is.
People need to learn stuff. In particular they need to learn stuff that is counterintuitive. That is: anti common-sensical. So that they can at least entertain the notion that a woman may, just possibly, be able to get into a car and engage the correct gear, so as not to reverse it into a gatepost. (God that Enfield sketch was funny! Though not as funny as the one about women getting educated and growing beards and going mad. 'Look at these harridans. Hard to believe they're all under 25, isn't it?' Superb!)
One last note: I've got say - the debate about transphobia here in the UK is strangely right wing, stuffed up and kind of old fashioned here in the UK, by western standards. Even in the USA - notwithstanding all the lunacy there over e.g. gun-rights, religion and most recently the covid pandemic and ridiculous reactions to it from anti-vax Trumpists - the standard sort of consensus of the subject on the issue of transgender issues is more advanced. We're looking kind of stuffed up and behind the times here, I'd suggest. Time to move on. Bit of education required, sharpish.