He added that although some may choose to interpret his comments as “in-fighting” between himself and JK, it was not “what’s important right now”.
JK Rowling has stated that she opposes discrimination against transgender people and respects “every trans person’s rights to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them”.
However, critics branded her transphobic this month after she expressed her concern that rape suspects and convicts are allowed to identify as female, despite having used male genitalia to attack women.
The current policy allows biologically male suspects to register themselves as female without having legally changed their gender.
Meanwhile JK’s latest book, Troubled Blood, will fuel the flames of the fire further, after it emerged that the primary villain in it is a male serial killer who poses as a woman while murdering his victims.