Rolling's Post was retweeted and liked by hundreds of thousands of people. Rolling also told me that she received thousands of private emails of support to her fan mail address, many of them saying that the sender was too scared to post publicly on Twitter. They said things like "The number of likes for this tweet will never convey to you how much it mattered that you were willing to tweet it"
After years of observing the conflict between advocates for trans rights and women’s rights, J.K. Rowling weighs in.
Produced by Andy Mills, Matthew Boll, and Megan Phelps-Roper, with special thanks to Candace Mittel Kahn and Emily Yoffe.
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