J.K. Rowling had to return civil rights award

[Rev. Rye]

I think the worst think she’s actually guilty of is not understanding the difference between ‘sex’ and ‘gender’.

Boru

I've been following the issue (not terribly closely, though), and going from what I've been able to find and glean from her public statements on trans people, it seems that her stance on trans identity can best be described as "stupefyingly (likely willfully) ignorant" and not malicious, unlike certain other British writers (what the fuck happened, Graham Linehan? Get tired of creating some of the best sitcoms ever made and settled for harassing trans people on Twitter?)

That said, I'm well aware this is cold comfort for the many Trans people who've criticised her, especially since she's refused to back down in the face of criticism (either the harassment campaigns endemic to Twitter hive minds or calmer tweets that explained exactly why her assertions are wrong.) Then again, this is a woman who recently decided that, until fairly recently, wizards just pissed and shit on the floors and magicked away the evidence, so, even if she did write a couple books that changed the lives of millions of people forever, she's probably not the sort of person whose thoughts you should pay any mind to.