Rowling has one particular argument she has made about one particular policy (self-ID). Vox, like many other outlets, is collapsing things so pro-self-ID = pro-trans-rights. This isn't honest or informed journalism. I say that as someone who somewhat disagrees with w/JKR on this.

2/ Self-ID has the support of 50% of Brits (though the question is asked in a way that, to my mind, understates how quick the process would be), with the rest unsure or against. The reform has been scrapped by the Johnson gov but in Scotland (last I heard https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-women-support-self-identification-transgender-people-boris-johnson-gra-a9616136.html

3/ things are pressing ahead. It's an OPEN PUBLIC-POLICY DEBATE. You can't just say that supporting one side of it is 'pro-trans' and holding any other view, like "Transitioning is too difficult but self-ID goes slightly too far in the other direction" is transphobic. It would

4/ take like two paragraphs to provide all this context but these outlets never do because, in some cases, they are actively trying to obscure the details of the debate from readers. That's what propagandists do -- not journalists.

5/Okay here is a MUCH better and MUCH more illuminating rundown of the results. There's overall much support for trans rights, but MANY of the positions entailed by no-questions-asked self-ID are underwater.

The more specific you get, the less support.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/07/16/where-does-british-public-stand-transgender-rights?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=website_article&utm_campaign=where_public_stands_on_transgender_rights

6/ Major media outlets shouldn't platform phrenologists or Holocaust denials or anything else. But it's deeply corrosive for the Voxes of the world to pretend that important questions where the public is deeply divided have been settled, with only bigots remaining on one side.

7/ Even if your goal, as a Vox writer, is to advocate for self-ID, how is this cause served by misrepresenting things so thoroughly? Do you think the average member of the British public is going to say, "Well, Vox is scolding me, so I must be wrong!"