Hi! As a trans person, what is your take on the cancellation of JKR and when someone got fired for IIRC just using the term "woman" in UK? I'm not in US or UK but I see those issues as ideological.
The issues you listed are completely fair but some think trans people being safe, having a job and being generally equal can coexist with the concept of a woman, but some don't think so. I guess/hope the above comment referred to that.
I think that J.K. Rowling's public statements show that at the very least, she has a strawman conception of what most trans people are like and what our motives are, that a much greater proportion of us are dangerous predators than actually are, and that trans rights activism as a whole is in her words "offering cover to predators." She's also platformed a lot of people who use phrases like "reducing" the number of transgender people, which is ominous. I'm not familiar with the UK incident you mentioned (I'm in the US), but Rowling in particular is concerned about a lot more dire things than an abstract concept of who is and isn't a woman.
That being said, she is still rich, has movies and games in active production, and many of my friends consume that media without even being aware of her controversies, so cancellation is the wrong word for what's happening to and around her.
I thought said incident is how attacks on her began but it looks like the trigger was her sarcastic objection to phrase "people who menstruate".
Either way I can't really blame her if making a tweet about media allergy to word "woman" prompted death threats. Platforming, don't know enough to comment right now (though AFAIK people are not going out on protests against Joe Rogan like they did against her and we all know the characters Rogan is platforming...)
I consider myself mostly left but I think the world should be big enough for both trans people and women-referred-to-as-women (who have their own long going battle for equality) to coexist. If it is wrong please let me know why. But for now if someone treats using word "woman" as equivalent to attacking trans people then I write that off as "ideological issue" since it's obviously not attacking trans people. Looks like Rowling couldn't write that off and needed to comment because she was personally attacked and also felt the need to defend women as she is one.
Hope that helps clarify how people can be completely pro trans equality and yet be frustrated with some of what's happening as ideological agenda pushing.
The issues you listed are completely fair but some think trans people being safe, having a job and being generally equal can coexist with the concept of a woman, but some don't think so. I guess/hope the above comment referred to that.