American media are discussing a transfobe scandal around Joan Rowling again

Journalist Pamela Paul wrote a column at The New York Times, speaking in support of the British writer Joan Rowling, who is accused of transfobia. The material was published the day after a new scandal, which was erupted in a wave of debate on how the media should illuminate the problems of transgender people.Pamela Paul intervened in this discussion and criticized the “Haters on the Internet” and “influential activists in protecting the rights of transgender people” for inciting the campaign against Rowling, as dangerous as absurd. ” The journalist noted that the charges of transfobia against the author of the books of Harry Potter made Rowling a target for "verbal insults, harassment and threats of sexual and other physical violence, including threats of murder."

Previously, Rowling said that "only biological women can fall into women's shelters for victims of domestic violence and women's prisons." The writer opposed amendments to the law on the recognition of gender, according to which transgender people will not have to receive a medical justification for the legal recognition of the floor. At the same time, she "defended those who changed their minds to change the floor, advocated the rights of scientists-feminists who were attacked by LGTBK activists."