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If that was what she was saying it'd be fine. You would likely need to do a little more than 5 minutes of searching to understand what all the commotion is about but I might be able to provide some context that would help. If you actually want to read all of this.
Let's take the essay she wrote on her website.
You can read that court case ruling and see examples of what comments Maya made, through tweets, slack, and otherwise. JK puts transphobic in quotes and words her comment in a way that is implying that she does not agree with that label. This example from the document is pretty on the nose though:
Then the essay says:
Magdalen Berns wasn't "a great believer in the importance of biological sex", she was openly transphobic and compared it to blackface.
So twice JK is defending clearly transphobic people and downplaying it to things like, oh they just tweeted something or just believed in biological sex (whatever that means) and were canceled by activists online.
Then later in the essay she says:
That does happen when there's an increase in awareness, access, and acceptance of something.
With this, JK is pushing the idea that trans people (especially teens) are confused, or are just following a trend, or being persuaded to be trans. Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria is a made up term implying people wake up one day and decide to be trans, minimizing what is, for many trans people, years of hiding their identity from their family and friends. The study she's mentioning from Lisa Littman did not involve trans people, and is actually only a survey of 256 parents of trans people. Here's a bit from the paper:
So she's basing this entire section of her essay on a survey of 256 parents from various groups online like the "Parents of transgender children" facebook group and making it seem like there's a trend of teens, again, waking up one day and deciding to be trans. This "republishing" that JK mentions made corrections to the paper and included an apology from the editor. But, JK represents it as just outrage from activists online.
Then she pulls out this classic:
No, you probably wouldn't have tried to transition to escape womanhood. Being a Trans Man is not some vacation from the struggles of being a woman. She even acknowledges some of their struggles later.
I'm going to quote another site I read for this one:
Then the meat and potatoes of this, natal women's safety:
Trans women have been using women's spaces for decades, this certificate process makes no difference. If this was going to be an issue it would've already been one by now. Instead she's fearmongering this idea that Men will all of a sudden with no other effort just claim to be a woman and start sexually assaulting women. The truth is trans women face many of the same threats of sexual violence and in JKs world they would have to use the same facilities as men.
This is, in part, why she's receiving all of the hate. Death threats and all of that are over the top but that's not an issue that's specific to her, people suck. However, despite the polite way she words everything, she defends other transphobic people and is pushing to deny trans people rights and healthcare in the interest of Women's safety using unfounded claims based on misinformation and bad data.