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I, along with many others, just don't think Rowling is transphobic. I don't see any evidence that she hates trans people, just that she doesn't agree with some of the extreme trans activists takes, just like most people who aren't extreme.
This doesn't mean there's no such thing as being canceled, but I do think that it shows more and more people have caught on to some of tactics that are used to cancel others. It's going to continue to have less impact as time goes on, which is good, imo. Cancelation has its merits, but we're coming out of an overreach period.
I mean, she's straight up said she thinks that trans women are not women and that she believes being transgender is a mental illness. She said she'd rather go to jail than be forced to call trans people by their preferred pronouns (which is insane and not a real scenario that would happen, but still telling nonetheless lol). She's buddied up with some far-right extremists, one of which has likened being transgender to doing blackface and another that said trans men should be sterilized.
I also don't agree with extremist takes on either side, but promotion of trans erasure and mocking/minimizing/invalidating a margininalized group that is frequently at risk of being targeted for violence are not victimless acts.