J.K. Rowling is speaking out after being roundly criticized for recent comments about trans people. In a lengthy essay posted on her personal website, the Harry Potter author defended her recent tweets denigrating the trans community.
RELATED: Daniel Radcliffe, Eddie Redmayne & More Put J.K. Rowling On Blast After Tweet About Trans People Rowling, in the essay, explained how she came to be interested in trans issues, and then discussed for the first time her “first violent marriage,” and revealed that she is “a domestic abuse and sexual assault survivor.” “I’m mentioning these things now not in an attempt to garner sympathy, but out of solidarity with the huge numbers of women who have histories like mine, who’ve been slurred as bigots for