JK Rowling Under Fire Over Anti-Trans Comments

Photo Credit: NBC/Joel C Ryan/AP file

Source: Lucia Binding, news.sky.com, June 10, 2020

The author is criticized for defining a woman as someone who menstruates.

The Harry Potter author had taken issue with the phrasing of a headline for an opinion article about healthcare equality, titled Opinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate.

“‘People who menstruate’. I’m sure there used to be a word for those people,” she tweeted on Saturday. “Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”

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