By all accounts, JK Rowling hasn't suffered any negative consequence of her transphobia, she has even marketed it and is benefiting from it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ink-Black-Heart-Robert-Galbraith-eb... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Troubled-Blood-Cormoran-Strike-5-eb...
And Harry Potter merchandising and derived works are still selling like pancakes.
The wikipedia page outlines the charge that it contains "pernicious anti-trans tropes" and continues:
Nick Cohen, writing for The Spectator, argued that the transphobia accusations were baseless and slanderous, noting that Dennis Creed is investigated along with a dozen other suspects.
He also stated that the book does not engage in the politics of women-only spaces and access to gender reassignment treatments.
Alison Flood, writing for The Guardian, expressed similar views, arguing that people who have not read the book were making wrong assumptions based on a single review.
Allan Massie, writing for The Scotsman, stated of the character of Creed that "there is no suggestion that he was transgender".
She definitely used all that drama to sell books and benefited from it.
Which character in Troubled Blood is transgender? Is there a transgender character in The Ink Black Heart ?
It's not Dennis Creed as I recall from my reading some time past, certainly not Edie Ledwell.
The Spectator is a right-wing British newspaper with dozens of anti-trans articles and op-eds. The Scotsman and The Guardian also have very anti-trans skews. (The latter less so, but definitely more anti than pro overall.)
It's fair to say that fearmongering about trans people isn't the central focus of the novel, but she obviously knew exactly what she was doing and why.
And Barry Humphries is a beloved Australian entertainer who cross dresses. Neither are transgender.
Further, the prime suspect of the novel, Dennis Creed, is closely based on real life serial killers such as Angus Sinclair, Jerry Brudos, and Russell Williams who all share victim name details and traits with the fictional Creed, such as messing with bodies, fetishism, etc
None of these real life serial killers were trans gender, at least two cross dressed, and there are very few serial killers that lack a pathology.
There appears to be some in the world who will see a crime genre author write about a serial killer and immediately conclude that killer must be trans and some kind of transphobic stereotype.
I'm not one of those people.
FWiW I did vote for Leigh Varis-Beswick as mayor of Kalgoorlie but that was mainly due to her having some good ideas for change and having been a lifelong friend of my sister.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Williams_(criminal)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Brudos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_End_Murders
https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/heavy-metal-heaven-20050828...
No it wasn't. Even in the UK, a supposed hellscape of unfree speech, she only finally got into any trouble when she repeatedly told outright and trivially knowable lies about another person. There's no guarantee she loses that court case either, so she hasn't exactly faced any repercussions for her speech. Companies are still making boatloads of harry potter content and it still sells like hotcakes.