JK Rowling slammed for her transphobic tweet: Details here

On Thursday, Rowling posted the following tweet: "Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who'll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill."

Rowling here is referring to Maya Forstater, who was fired from an international thinktank over transphobic tweets.

Forstater lost her job as a visiting fellow at the Centre for Global Development after she was accused of sharing transphobic material on Twitter.

The ruling judge at the employment tribunal, James Tayler, held that Forstater didn't have the right to ignore or deny the legal rights of transpersons, adding that ruling in her favor would prevent employers from firing employees sharing queer/trans-phobic sentiments.

Some of the transphobic material Forstater shared includes tweets such as "men cannot change into women."

She opposed the inclusion of transwomen in sports and said it's "unsafe" for cisgender women if transwomen have access to women's spaces.

She also allegedly misgendered a non-binary person, Gregor Murray, as a man since she shouldn't be "forced to lie or obfuscate about someone's sex."

By extending support to Forstater, Rowling has basically endorsed transphobic statements that conflate gender and sex, and suggest sex is immutable.

However, studies among children show that transgender children experience their gender identity as strongly as a cisgender child would, i.e., a child assigned 'male' at birth isn't lying if they say they're a girl.

Yet, Forstater believes being trans is somehow anti-science.