Voidgolem posted...
hasn't she been "mask off" for the better part of a decade now?
Not really. Up until now the anti-trans trolls defending her have been able to ask to see which transphobic comments Rowling has made, giving them the facade of respectability by pretending that they just haven't seen her objectionable comments. Now though there's just so much out there that they've given up the facade and admit what they believed all along which is that 'transphobic' doesn't exist as a concept and thus Rowling
can't
have said anything transphobic.
It's a new phase of the hate spiral. Now they can't pretend to be the respectable ones any more. Further increased radicalization and explicit calls for anti-trans discrimination are where we go from here.