JK Rowling has attracted criticism for tweets posted over the weekend, after she took issue with a headline discussing “people who menstruate”.
In a tweet she said: "I'm sure there used to be a word for those people.Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?" The Harry Potter author faced backlash from fans and colleagues, including Daniel Radcliffe, who said “transgender women are women”.
However, Rowling has now said one of the reasons which motivated her to speak about the issue was her experience of domestic abuse and sexual assault.She wrote on her website JKRowling.com: “This isn’t an easy piece to write, for reasons that will shortly become clear, but I know it’s time to explain myself on an issue surrounded by toxicity.