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Later that month, in the middle of a thread ostensibly attempting to support trans equality, Rowling tweets, “The question at the heart of this debate is whether sex or gender identity should form the basis of decisions on safeguarding, provision of services, sporting categories and other areas where women and girls currently have legal rights and protections.” The idea behind what Rowling is saying is that allowing trans women equal access to those spaces will erode current legal rights for cisgender women and girls. This is a position that only makes sense if you are denying that trans women and girls are women and girls. Rowling then adds an insistence on separating “sex” from “gender,” an essentialist idea that contradicts current medical practice and scientific research, which advocates for treating gender identity as linked primarily to the brain, not anatomy.
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That right there sums the whole thing up... that is the position that Rowling espouses about trans women and the entire core of the controversy about her. Whatever you think about that position dictates what you think about Rowling.
The rest of the summary is kind of secondary - basically, the people who support Rowling are the people who agree with what she wrote in that paragraph, and as a result, see her as being in the right in respect of every other item chronicled in that article. Anyone who agrees with the author of the article will see her as being in the wrong in respect of every other item.