JK Rowling has responded to parents who claim their children ‘cry’ over her ‘transphobic posts’.

The 57-year-old author took to Twitter after being sent messages from former fans who claim her views have upset their kids.

It comes after the Harry Potter creator faced enormous backlash for her views on gender identity, but has strongly denied accusations of transphobia.

Now she has taken to Twitter after being sent messages that included: “My daughter used to love your books, but after you became a bigot she cried and asked me ‘Daddy, why do people hate those who are different from them?’ I don’t know baby, I don’t know.”

Another message said: “JK Rowling, I have a 12 year old trans daughter and she cries everytime she sees one of your transphobic posts. She is a huge fan of Harry Potter but seeing the author of her favourite book series being so bigoted is heartbreaking. Please J.K, make my daughter happy again.”

JK Rowling responded by tweeting to her 14 million followers: “My one-year-old son just looked up from Twitter and said, 'Mummy, why have you made these very real children sad with your heinous yet unevidenced bigotry?'

"Then he ran upstairs and burned all his Potter books.

"I was so damn ashamed I almost forgot the kid was imaginary.”

We previously reported how JK Rowling said she “absolutely knew” that her comments and views on transgender issues would make Harry Potter fans “deeply unhappy”.

It comes as she addressed a tweet she had made in 2019, in which she expressed support for tax expert Maya Forstater, and the resulting fallout.

Forstater lost her job over her own tweets made about transgender people, and later took the case to an employment tribunal on the grounds that her dismissal constituted discrimination against her beliefs.

At the time, Rowling tweeted: “Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security.

“But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill.”

Speaking on the  The Witch Trials Of JK Rowling podcast she admitted it would have been “easier” to not wade in on the debate.

“When I first became interested and then deeply troubled by what I saw as a cultural movement that was liberal in its methods and was very questionable in its ideas, I absolutely knew that if I spoke out, many folks would be deeply unhappy with me,” she said.