More and more people are rallying to support JK Rowling. The famous author says she has received more than 3,000 emails a day thanking her for detailing her experience with domestic abuse.
The "Harry Potter" author has been at the centre of a row over trans rights following a string of social media posts in which she voiced her concerns about transgender issues and reiterated that "women has menstruation".
Her comments sparked a pathetic and insignificant accusations of transphobia – an allegation she strongly denies.
In an open letter published on 10 June, she wrote that she was partly motivated to speak out about female trauma because of her own experiences of abuse and sexual assault.
In a Twitter thread posted on last 28 June, she said she had received "over 3,000 emails" thanking her for "speaking up".
Her message came hours after a Labor frontbencher apologized for accusing her of "using her own sexual assault as justification" to raise concerns over rights for transgender people."
Rowling wrote: "I’ve been brought to tears many times while reading, sometimes out of gratitude for their kindness, but also because many women have shared their own experiences of violence and sexual assault.
"Some emails came from professionals working in women’s refuges, the prison service, the social work system, the criminal justice system and the police. All expressed concerns about the aims and methods of current trans activism.
"As I stated in my essay, my primary worry is the risks to vulnerable women.
"As everyone knows, I’m no longer reliant on communal facilities, nor am I likely to be imprisoned or need a women’s refuge any time soon.
"I’m not arguing for the privileged, but the powerless."
Responding to criticism from shadow environment minister Lloyd Russell-Moyle, published in an article for Tribune magazine last week, she said: "When so-called leftists like @lloyd_rm demand that we give up our hard won sex-based rights, they align themselves squarely with men’s rights activists.
"To both groups, female trauma is white noise, an irrelevance, or else exaggerated or invented."