In the midst of a global pandemic and a country-wide upheaval over police brutality and discrimination, Twitter users were baffled on Saturday (June 6), when Harry Potter author J.K.
Rowling sent out a flurry of transphobic tweets due to a headline she read. In the first of many tweets, the author criticized a Devex headline that used the phrase "people who menstruate" instead of the word women. "I’m sure there used to be a word for those people.
Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?" the author wrote. She later sent out a much longer series of tweets, claiming incorrectly that transgender people want to remove the concept of sex altogether. "If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased," she said. "I know and