J K Rowling and her transphobia, why?

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34. Wife and I had long discussion on this because it does seem weird

I enjoyed the books. The parts about SPEW (house elf enslavement) and racial prejudices (pure bloods vs all others) seem to show a progressive stance. She went out of her way to make the smartest and most capable young character a woman. Yes, Harry is the hero but Hermione is "the most clever witch of her age"

But my wife said this -- That Rowling is so concerned that no one infringe on advancement for women that she considers trans women to be a threat to women. Her vitriol is almost exclusively pointed at people who were born male and then transition to female. She views them as attacking the advances that women have made over the last few decades.

I remember one of my best friends in college saying that in the LGBU at college, that those three groups really did not understand trans people in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They weren't hostile, they just did not understand. Eventually, it went from confusion to acceptance to support.

But JK who was pro LGB rights seems decades behind her other views on the transgender issue.

My wife thinks that it comes from some trauma from a man -- ex-husband, molester or rapist earlier, or whatever -- that she cannot see past her own trauma to accept transfolks.

It makes sense that this is almost a PTSD lash out but I doubt it was a trans individual who hurt her. Since it would be about the only incidence of it ever. But, I could believe she was raped by a cis-gender male in a bathroom and that is why it is such a hot button object for her.

I wish she would get some therapy and stop saying hateful things.