J.K. Rowling has been at the centre of transphobia accusations for many years, in a timeline that began with the ‘liking’ of a tweet that seemingly criticised the transgender rights movement to lengthy personal blogs on gender and feminism. There have been reports about J.K. Rowling's opinions on gender dating back to 2017 and 2018 when she ‘liked’ tweets that criticised the transgender movement and made derogatory comments about trans women – which she claimed in a statement and a later blog had been a mistake. J.K. Rowling tweets about ‘people who menstruate’