Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Rowling’s tweet read: “Dress however you please. Next, she sent a very restrained tweet in December 2019, expressing her support for Maya Forstater, a British woman who lost her job as a result of her gender-critical views. First, in 2018, she liked a couple of tweets written by gender-critical feminists-which is to say, feminists who reject the idea that gender self-identification can serve to erase the reality of human biology-including one tweet protesting against sexism in the Labour Party. What has Rowling done to deserve all of this? Well, let’s run through the list of her supposed crimes. Other social-media users obliged by posting footage of themselves doing just that. “Does anyone need firewood this winter! JK’s new book is perfect to burn next to a Romantic fire,” tweeted the Irish musical duo Jedward. To the already relentless abuse directed at Rowling has been added the #RIPJKRowling hashtag, which is now trending on Twitter. Activists in this area are not known for their restraint. Not that the facts matter to those stepping up the hate campaign against Rowling, of course.
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In fact, the only trans character to appear in the Cormoran Strike series (of which Troubled Blood is the latest instalment) is a highly sympathetic and vulnerable young trans woman who plays a small role in The Silk Worm.
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Although fetishistic cross-dressing is sometimes a behaviour exhibited by sexually-motivated murderers-the most famous being Ed Gein and Jerry Brudos, who provided inspiration for the Buffalo Bill character in Silence of the Lambs-Rowling doesn’t portray her murderer as trans, and so doesn’t employ the “ trans woman as serial killer” trope, as she has been accused of doing.
He never even wears a dress, but instead disguises himself in a feminine coat and wig when approaching one of his victims. 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.Īs other critics have since pointed out, “never trust a man in a dress” is very much not the moral of the book, and the Creed character is never described as a transvestite, or transgender, or trans-anything, in fact. But although these undeserved attacks must sting, Rowling’s position as a bestselling author has survived-just as it will surely survive the fresh wave of controversy that arrived this week, following a lukewarm and misleading review of Troubled Blood in the Daily Telegraph that included this line: The meat of the book is the investigation into a cold case: the disappearance of GP Margot Bamborough in 1974, thought to have been a victim of Dennis Creed, a transvestite serial killer. And last month, she was pressured to return a human-rights award after she was accused of having “diminished the identity” of trans people.
She has been condemned by actors such as Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson, who became rich and famous only thanks to her success. (In the UK, it sits at the number-one spot.) Sales of Harry Potter books also shot up over lockdown, despite the fact that, for more than a year now, Rowling’s name has been dragged through the mud on social media and in many news outlets. Her latest book, the murder mystery (written under the pen-name Robert Galbraith), was published on Tuesday and, as of Thursday, was number four on Amazon’s bestseller list for all literature and fiction. If anyone was safe, Rowling should have been safe.Īnd it turns out that she was, because despite the best efforts of her critics, she hasn’t yet been truly cancelled. This was the woman who became a billionaire, but then lost her billionaire status by giving away so much money to charity. This was the mum who escaped an abusive marriage and lived off benefits, writing the first Harry Potter book in an Edinburgh café while rocking her sleeping baby in a pram. Not only is she one of the best known and best loved authors in the world (the writer of children’s books, for goodness sake), she also has a personal history that ought to make her un-cancellable. Rowling first outed herself as a gender-critical feminist, my first thought was: If Rowling can be cancelled, anyone can be cancelled.
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