How the British Media Legitimized J.K. Rowling’s Transphobia

Preserved like frozen eddies in the whirlwind of a moral panic are the words of a national journalist, days after J.K. Rowling publishes her essay on the threat of the trans rights movement. Shona Craven’s newspaper article “This Is Why JK Rowling’s Non-Fiction Foray Caused a Twitter Storm,” which associates trans identity with online echo chambers and the hurling of abuse, crystallizes the kind of “vitriolic media campaigns” in the UK identified by the EU’s Council of Europe “in which trans wom