My guess is that the American election in 2016 triggered a much larger wave of anti-trans activity on the web, and she picked up on it, which is why it started then.
Also the last book was released in 2007, and the last film in 2011, and while she is an insane, bigoted, batshit crazy horrible witch of a woman, she isn’t stupid. There’s no way she was going to start a crusade like this while people were still flocking to read the books and go to the cinema - she’s wait until the audiences had died down and the reading figures had dropped.
My guess is that the American election in 2016 triggered a much larger wave of anti-trans activity on the web, and she picked up on it, which is why it started then.
Also the last book was released in 2007, and the last film in 2011, and while she is an insane, bigoted, batshit crazy horrible witch of a woman, she isn’t stupid. There’s no way she was going to start a crusade like this while people were still flocking to read the books and go to the cinema - she’s wait until the audiences had died down and the reading figures had dropped.