J.K. Rowling has once again come under fire from transgender rights activists, this time for her new crime novel, which features a cross-dressing serial killer
Published Tuesday,"Troubled Blood" by Robert Galbraith -- Rowling's crime writer pseudonym -- is the fifth installment in the Cormoran Strike series.An review of the novel in Britain's Daily Telegraph on Sunday described the"meat of the book" as an investigation into the cold case of a missing doctor who is believed to have fallen victim to a murderous cross-dresser.
Paris Lees, a transgender rights activist and British Vogue columnist, tweeted Monday:"JK Rowling's new book's about a 'transvestite serial killer' Meanwhile over in the real world the number of trans people killed in Brazil has risen by 70% this past year, young trans women are left to burn in cars and men who kill us are pardoned and sent home.
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