author J.K. Rowling is currently under fire for controversial tweets she posted about the transgender community. Her stance has caused fans and stars like , and to speak out against .
Here's everything you need to know:On June 6, Rowling retweeted an op-ed piece that discussed "people who menstruate," apparently taking issue with the fact that the story did not use the word women. "'People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people.
Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?," she wrote.That initial tweet garnered a lot of backlash, but Rowling did not relent and wrote about her views in more detail. "If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction.