GLAAD director of transgender representation Nick Adams noted that the book follows in a long tradition of “films, TV shows, and books using the ‘cross-dressing psychopathic killer’ trope”, which “have been created over and over by cisgender people”. GLAAD condemn ‘lazy’ cross-dresser trope. You really can't write a 900 page transphobic fantasy and then say "I'm not transphobic"- Mona Lisa Needsa Treatsa September 14, 2020
JK Rowling could have just…not done all of this and her trans fans (there are lots) would have continued to support her. Simply that ‘JK Rowling could have just… not done all of this’.
However YouTuber Kat Blaque took a different view. It is however very feminist, so some of JK's enemies will hate it for that- Nick Cohen September 14, 2020 Writer Nick Cohen defended Troubled Blood, arguing that its ending negates ‘the claim it’s anti-trans’, but conceding that the author’s ‘enemies’ will ‘hate’ the book because ‘it is however very feminist’. The amazing thing is that the world is so full of evil beings & villainous forces–pogromists, lynchers, mass rapists, starvers, militias, bomb-makers, weapons manufacturers, sweatshop owners, ecocidal profiteers– but writer could only settle on 'man dressed as woman'.- Priyamvada Gopal September 15, 2020 If I wasn't trans I suspect I would too.īut I ask you to look inside your heart and question what is really happening here Īcademic and writer Priyamvada Gopal wondered why the author had chosen a man dressed as a woman, when ‘the world is so full of evil beings and villainous forces’.
I know a lot of you who follow me probably share some of the fears around the myth about "men who dress up as women to hurt women". Writer Paris Lees noted that while Rowling writes about a cross-dressing serial killer, ‘the number of trans people killed in Brazil has risen by 70 per cent this past year, young trans women are left to burn in cars and men who kill us (for being trans) are pardoned and sent home’. Reviewer Jake Kerridge revealed that the “meat” of the 900-page novel is an investigation into a cold case: the disappearance of a woman believed the be the victim of a cross-dressing serial killer.Īs news of the plot spread on Twitter, users expressed their profound disappointment in Rowling’s new literary direction. Troubled Blood, released under Rowling’s Robert Galbraith pseudonym, was described by a Telegraph review as a “book whose moral seems to be: never trust a man in a dress”. JK Rowling found herself on the receiving end of a severe backlash – again – after an early review revealed that her new book features a cis male serial killer who likes to dress as a woman.
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