told the Daily Beast of his spat with the “Harry Potter” author, whose full name is Joanne Kathleen Rowling.“She sorta blocked me and all that,” he said of their Twitter tiff last June that even included Rowling deleting an earlier message of praise for him.Their to-do started when King was asked by fans about his views in the midst of Rowling getting accused of being transphobic over a series of tweets and follow-up blog posts.“Yes.
Trans women are women,” King responded — much to the ire of the “Fantastic Beasts” author.“Here’s the thing: She is welcome to her opinion,” King told The Daily Beast of Rowling’s much-maligned messages. “If she thinks that trans women are dangerous, or that trans women are somehow not women, or whatever.