Best-selling Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has stoked anger in the transgender community by including a cross-dressing serial killer in her latest novel, published on Tuesday.
JK Rowling's latest book"Troubled Blood", written under pseudonym Robert Galbraith, is pictured at a bookstore in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Britain, September 15, 2020. REUTERS/Carl Recine
“It’s really sad to see this road J.K. Rowling appears to be on,” said writer and trans advocate Ugla Stefania Kristjonudottir Jonsdottir, who quit Rowling’s literary agency in June in protest at the writer’s stance. The book revolves around the case of a woman missing since 1974 and presumed to be the unknown victim of a long-jailed serial killer.‘THIS IS FICTION’
The writer, whose Harry Potter series has sold more than 500 million books, followed the tweet with a 3,600-word essay, in which she disclosed she had been a victim of domestic abuse and sexual assault.But while many in the trans community were outraged by what they saw as further transphobia from the world’s wealthiest author, others have defended her.
Bev Jackson, co-founder of activist group LGB Alliance, said many of the attacks, which saw the hashtag #RIPJKRowling trending on Twitter, amounted to “misogyny”.
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