Rowling’s management told CNN that it would not be commenting on the latest controversy. Her latest book might cause those still enjoying her books to question that sentiment,” the Mermaids statement added. The author recently expressed support for trans people’s right to live free from persecution. Rowling’s fiction as a place of comfort, friendship and escape. “As a children’s charity, we are bearing witness to the very real hurt felt by young people who once saw Ms. "Harry Potter" actors have been among those to criticize Rowling. “We are disappointed to hear that the author might be propagating the same, long-standing and hurtful presentation of trans women as a threat. The spokesperson cited an example from Rowling’s second book in the “Strike” series from 2014 – “The Silkworm,” which featured a transgender character as a suspect. “This is a long-standing and somewhat tired trope, responsible for the demonization of a small group of people, simply hoping to live their lives with dignity,” a spokesperson said in a statement to CNN. Mermaids, a UK-based charity which supports transgender children and their families, said it was”concerned” by reports that the book features a character presenting as another gender in order to carry out attacks. “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,” reviewer Jake Kerridge wrote. Rowling 2018Īuthors at JK Rowling's literary agency quit over company's refusal to speak out on transgender rights Rowling, author of the "Harry Potter" books, has caused controversy with her views on transgender people. Rowling has just hit the detonation plunger, Coyote-style, under her literary career.J.K. Sentiments reflected by Sally Goldner, Media Representative Transgender Victoria, who told Star Observer, “That if descriptions of the book are accurate, I think J.K. In wake of this latest scandal, m any individuals have been quick to claim the author was continuing to kill her own career through her outdated views. Having on many occasions been called a TERF ( trans-exclusionary radical feminist ), on news of Rowling’s latest work of ‘literature’ being released social media once again went into melt down, with the hashtag #RIPJKRowling trending on Monday night. In 2019, Rowling publicly defended anti- trans a ctivist Maya Forstater, after they had lost a lawsuit in which she challenged that she should have the right to be transphobic in the workplace and that her views are or should be protected under the UK’s Equality Act. Wumben ? Wimpund ? Woomud ?” Rowling tweeted in reply to t he article that was discuss ing how a more equal post-COVID-19 world might be created in terms of gender-based discrimination and societal imbalance.Įven before this, Rowling’s anti-trans diatribe has been both well publicised and criticised. “ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Despite the fact that in reality, trans people are more likely to fall victim to rather than become perpetrators of crime and acts of violence.Įarlier this year, Rowling alienated herself from man y a fter mocking a headline about ‘ People who menstruate.’ Most concerning is Rowling’s apparent emphasis on painting trans characters in the rolls of villains. In an early review published by The Telegraph, journalist Jake Kerridge said of Troubled Blood, “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.” However, it will not be the first work in the series to draw criticism, with the embattled author p reviously called out for her depiction of a trans woman in the second Cormoran Strike novel, The Silkworm. W ritten under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood will be the fifth instalment in Rowling’s Cormoran Strike detective series. Rowling continues to dig her own grave, this time with news that her latest piece of ‘literature’ will revolve around a male serial killer disguised as a woman.
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