J K Rowling and her transphobia, why?

[Emrys]

70. Rowling's been characterized as a social media troll in a reply above. That's what she is.

The distasteful aspects of her online persona are nothing new, and I don't believe they came from any outside influence.

My partner, who's an old-school feminist but generally had better sense than to waste her time on the darker reaches of social media, commented once that she'd heard that poor Rowling was being picked on online. I replied that a few years ago (before I lost patience and paid Rowling no more attention than I could avoid, a process that took very little time), Rowling regularly unleashed her online fanbase (who are generally nutty and rabid) on any online person, large or small, with whom she'd had a disagreement, so such sympathy was severely misplaced.

Those fans would then persecute whoever it was en masse and relentlessly. She was directing packs of small-minded, merciless bullies to do her dirty work, and knew full well how it would pan out. Her fans, modelling themselves on her, set about the task gleefully with cries of "Slay, Queen!" and similar inanity.