Notably, the last several years of Rowling’s public life have cemented her as one of the most famous opponents to trans rights in the world, with trans-exclusionary radical feminists, better known as TERFs, claiming the once-beloved author as a celebrity champion. In June 2020, after months of speculation from trans people online that Rowling was becoming radicalized by anti-trans sentiment online, she published her now-infamous essay “TERF Wars,” in which repeated several transphobic dog whistles, including the baseless claim that transition is a “social contagion” and that there is an “explosion” of young girls transitioning.