I have friends who are trans or NB. I have friends whose kids are trans or NB. I see their love, vulnerability, tenderness, and patient wisdom. When you defend JKR (or others) when she says trans women aren’t women, you’re casually punching these innocent friends of mine.

And you are not convincing me of your “side of the story” at all. You’re only making me more determined to defend them and to represent them respectfully in my writing.

Yes, I’m a cis woman who uses “women’s spaces.” No, I don’...