No its logical.
I've used male names online in the past to avoid harassment and to be taken seriously, particularly in more toxic masculine environments such as gaming.
Over the years I've shown DH the difference in how men try to dismiss, belittle or talk over you online on the basis of whether you have a male or female name.
Its fascinating to watch THE SEXISM at play.
Thats not wanting to be the other sex, nor trying to change reality, thats about realising that ITS THE STEREOTYPES OF SEX FROM SOCIETY that is the problem, not our innate internal soul thats stuck in the wrong body.
JKR wanted to write without the prejudices of Harry Potter hanging over her - so she could be judged on her actual work, not her reputation. Which is actually quite admirable. She could easily have written them under her own name and it would been a hit, regardless of how shit it was. Instead she demonstrated she was a good enough writer to do it without her name behind it.
None of this had an impact on anyone else's identity or dignity or safety either.
Gender identity is built upon a foundation which REINFORCES these contraints about sex. If you want to be treated a certain way / look a certain way, you HAVE to change gender. Women must be feminine, compliant, do silly brainless giggles and not say anything above their station - they should stick to talk about prams on MN not politics - is one genuine comment thats been put out there. Otherwise they are evil witches, who are dangerous and deservig of abuse for not knowing their place as women. Men are the only ones who are of equal stature and worth of a higher level of respect.
JKR sees the sexism. She used another name to avoid the sexism, but has no deserve 'to fool' anyone, compel anyone elses speech or to be a man. Its about wanting respect for all that doesn't exist on a equal playing field for women and not disrespectful to anyone else.
This is where trans activism goes wrong. It makes demands from others, it doesn't make an effort to offer or encourage respect. It tramples over women at their expense and then says 'why don't you respect me for who I am'. The reality is people are now giving the respect on the basis of their demonstrated bad behaviour not their identity, because respect isn't given to women. Its just more males acting like males and not treating women as equals.
And that does seem to be where a lot of the desire of young girls to be men is coming from. The same sentiment as JKR but without the maturity. JKR is happy to be a woman, and sees the harm women are physically and mentally doing to themselves because of these toxic environments that girls are finding themselves and want to identify out of. JKR has the maturity to understand its the wrong solution to the same problem she has faced in her life. She knows it will cause more harms, and almost legitimise sexism by forcing women to either conform to this 'feminine ideal' that suits the interests of men, or to identify out of it - at cost because they aren't 'good enough women'. Yet simulataineous, never being able to be men cos of physical limitations.
Its demanding that women facilitiate and enable sexism and male abuse rather than tackling the actual problem - male led abuse.
JKR's actions highlight the real problem. TRAs don't like that.
Attacks on JKR are about playing the man not the ball, because they KNOW shes got a point and its all about the gender stereotypes they LIKE and want to amplify. Thats why they attack her - especially on this bit - by calling her a hypocritic.
Shes not.