In her new book, JK Rowling continues with the transphobia
JK Rowling continues to beat her awful transphobic drum.
According to an early review in The Telegraph, Troubled Blood-the fifth installment in Rowling's Cormoran Strike series written under the pen name Robert Galbraith-deals with the cold case of a woman who disappeared in 1974 and is believed to be the victim of Dennis Creed, "a transvestite serial killer." (Transvestite is considered an outdated and derogatory term for cross-dressing, which is not the same as being trans.) The review goes on to say, "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."
This also isn't the first time Rowling's anti-trans opinions have found their way onto the pages of this particular series. In the second Cormoran Strike book, The Silkworm, a woman named Pippa stalks detective Strike before attempting to stab him. Strike traps her in his office, revealing her identity as a trans woman, with Rowling adding in a description of her Adam's apple and hands. The detective then tells Pippa that prison "won't be fun for you.... Not pre-op." (Rowling's representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)