J.K. Rowling Returns To Global Spotlight After Alleging She'd Received Death Threats From Trans Activists

After removing herself from the limelight following several controversies surrounding her stance on trans issues Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling once again attracted Twitter's attention after alleging she'd received "hundreds" of trans activists "have threatened to beat, rape, assassinate and bomb" her.

The claim started when she screenshot a tweet from a user who wrote "I wish you a very pipebomb in your mailbox" to her.

"To be fair, when you can’t get a woman sacked, arrested or dropped by her publisher, and cancelling her only made her book sales go up, there’s really only one place to go," wrote Rowling. When a user asked what the tweet was in reference to, she sarcastically said, "Yes, but now hundreds of trans activists have threatened to beat, rape, assassinate and bomb me I’ve realised that this movement poses no risk to women whatsoever."

The tweets split users on Rowling's accusations. Some were appalled at what Rowling claimed to have received:

A large number of Twitter users argued that what Rowling claimed was false equivalence, arguing that advocating against trans people with her platform was far more harmful than the backlash she'd received.

After her brief foray back onto Twitter to stir the pot, Rowling returned to writing her crime novel.