blog post, Rowling simply wrote "TERF wars." TERF stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminist, a term which critics have called the author."This isn’t an easy piece to write, for reasons that will shortly become clear, but I know it’s time to explain myself on an issue surrounded by toxicity.
I write this without any desire to add to that toxicity," she wrote at the start of her piece.Rowling addressed the origin of the claims that she's transphobic — that she supported Maya Forstater, a tax.