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”. Another source said Rowling had “no ulterior motive” in making Creed a.