Is JK Rowling just trolling everyone at this point?
According to an early review, the Harry Potter author’s latest novel, Troubled Blood, centers around a male serial killer who dresses up like a woman to murder his female victims.
Related: Authors flee lit agency over JK Rowling’s anti-trans remarks
Given Rowling’s persistent, transphobic musings on gender, her latest crime novel is sure to further inflame tensions.
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According to the book’s first review in The Telegraph the “moral seems to be: never trust a man in a dress.”
“One wonders what critics of Rowling’s stance on trans issues will make of [the] book,” writes reviewer Jake Kerridge.
Related: Jake Graf calls JK Rowling’s anti-trans comments “cruel and irresponsible”
Troubled Blood is the fifth book in Rowling’s crime series following the fictional detective Cormoran Strike. They are penned under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
The second of the series, 2014’s The Silkworm, was criticized for how it portrayed a trans character as “unstable and aggressive.”
Cam
So she ripped off the plot of an old movie “Dressed to Kill” so she could troll the community. (Eye Roll).
invisiblebond
Thanks for the reference 🙂
Kangol2
Cam, you took the words out of my mouth. Seriously, JK Rowling?
wikidBSTN
He obsession with all things trans tells me one thing – she used to be a man.
bibleu
You realise that’s not an insult, yeah?
But if she were trans, she probably wouldn’t be quite so nasty to trans people.
TimberWolf
Apparently she is desperate and unappreciative of her own creativity with Harry Potter, but to revamp the classic Dress to Kill with Angie Dickenson is a bit ridiculous Insulting to LGBT
missvamp
she’s out of material & now ripping off old movies. eyeroll.
jrockfreak
is it insulting tho? Its just a character in a book
WSnyder
We’ve all seen people upend their reputations by accident. But like Wow. I’m hard pressed to think of anyone working so hard to destroy theirs when they literally were on a pedestal of high admiration just a short time ago.
inbama
If you’re really interested in what she’s writing about, check out “crime news” on a website called womenarehuman dot com.
jjose712
And what about reading the book and then criticise for a change.
And trans activist should realize they can cancel Rowling, they tried a lot of times and failed.
And you can cancel someone threatening him/her. Last night ripjkrowling was trending in Spain, but most people were not trashing her but the ones promoting such disturbing hashtag
iminheatlikeacat
So what? It’s her book. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. If there was a book by a homophobic author who wrote about a gay murderer I would read it because I would be interested in reading it but nobody is forcing anybody else to. And besides, she didn’t say anything transphobic so stop peddling that lie.
starri
Her pen name is the same as Robert Galbraith Heath, a proponent of conversion therapy. I’m no longer sure that’s a coincidence.
JCDK1984
As a proud gay TERF she is still my hero.
jrockfreak
Doesnt sound Transphobic to be, its a crime novel so sounds like people are overreacting
Gay Thomas
Could she be anymore of a khunt? I don’t think so.
Sam
I still LOVE JK Rowling and I’m a big supporter of her. Don’t listen to the Twitter drama and the fuss and the nonsensical comments.