A charity which supports transgender children has urged JK Rowling to meet some of the young people it works with after the author sparked a row with her comments on the issue.
Mermaids published a lengthy statement challenging views expressed by Rowling after she said she had been motivated to address transgender issues by what she sees as an increasingly misogynistic society.
She also revealed that her previous experiences of domestic abuse and sexual assault partly made her want to speak out. Last weekend, Rowling also took issue with a headline on an online article discussing “people who menstruate”, and said: “I’m sure there used to be a word for those people.
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