Harry Potter author JKRowling is at the centre of another social media pile-on, with a grim hashtag circulating after her latest move.
follows a private detective, Cormoran Strike, as he investigates a cisgender male serial killer who dons women’s clothing to kill female victims. Using the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, it’s the fifth book in Rowling’s Cormoran Strike series using the pen name., the second novel in the series, Rowling portrays a trans character as being “unstable and aggressive.”
“The meat of the book is the investigation into a cold case: the disappearance of GP Margot Bamborough in 1974, thought to have been a victim of Dennis Creed, a transvestite serial killer,” wrote the“One wonders what critics of Rowling’s stance on trans issues will make of a book whose moral seems to be: never trust a man in a dress.”
Rowling’s latest work is not the first time her transphobia has reared its ugly head in her writing. Picture: AFP.in a lengthy essay, which also revealed that she was sexually assaulted as a young woman. “I’m concerned about the huge explosion in young women wishing to transition and also about the increasing numbers who seem to be detransitioning , because they regret taking steps that have, in some cases, altered their bodies irrevocably, and taken away their fertility,” she wrote., citing an “intolerance of opposing views,” in July.trending in entertainment
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