JK Rowling sparks fresh trans row after writing new book about cross-dressing serial killer
J. K. Rowling has sparked a fresh trans controversy after creating a cross-dressing serial killer in her new thriller.
Troubled Blood — written as Robert Galbraith — features a male murderer with a fetish for women’s clothing.
It comes after Rowling, 55, was accused of being transphobic for criticising a headline about “people who menstruate”.
She denied it and was backed yesterday by Robbie Coltrane, 70, who plays Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter films.
He said: “I don’t think what she said was offensive.”
A publishing source said the new character, Dennis Creed, “fetishes women’s clothing . . . and disguises himself as a woman to trick the person he’s abducting”.
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Another source said Rowling had “no ulterior motive” in making Creed a cross-dresser.
It sparked a backlash, with one Twitter user saying: “For someone who has said she ‘loves’ and ‘supports’ trans people, perhaps she should support them by avoiding deeply harmful tropes about our community.
"But she doesn’t care — this is deliberate. It’s gross.”
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