J.K. Rowling is in hot water once again. The “Harry Potter” author faces outrage over her stance on transgender people after an early review of her new book under the pen name Robert Galbraith.
A review in the Telegraph describes Troubled Blood, the 900-page fifth volume in Rowling’s Cormoran Strike series, as being about a cold case involving a woman who disappeared in 1974, and who is believed to have been murdered by “a transvestite serial killer,” using the outdated and often derogatory term for cross-dressing. “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,” the review says.