She was outed after the first novel came out in 2013. "I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist."Ī few years ago, Rowling wanted to start writing crime novels, but didn't want people to know it was her, and so she hid behind the name Robert Galbraith. I'm a real sucker for guitars," laughs Galbraith - otherwise known as J.K Rowling. Comer Demands Documents for VP Biden's Secret Pseudonym: 'Robert L.Author Robert Galbraith just loves the band Blue Öyster Cult - in fact, lyrics from the band are all over his latest book, Career of Evil, the third novel in the Cormoran Strike series.Report: Trump to Sit down with Carlson, Skip First GOP Presidential Debate.Report: Media Tycoon Rupert Murdoch Prodded Youngkin to Launch WH Bid.Report: DeSantis Super PAC Posts Plan to 'Hammer' Ramaswamy in Debate.California Bill May Criminalize Parents' Protests at School Board Meetings.Trump Cancels 'Major News Conference' on Latest Indictment.Neoconservatives Launch Ad Campaign to Boost GOP Support for Ukraine.Armed IRS Agent Accidentally Kills Another Agent During Range Time.Pollak on Savage: Trump Could Take Oath of Office in Prison and Walk Free.Rowling online abuse Social Media TERF TERFs Transgender transphobia Twitter Rowling Warns on Trans Therapy for Kids: ‘We’re on Brink of a Medical Scandal’ įollow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter at London / Europe Tech feminism Harry Potter J.K. On Monday, former Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon lashed out at Rowling over the comments, saying that they were “ really painful” for her 23-year-old transgender son, who was born as a woman but now identifies as a man. Sharing an article entitled: “Opinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate,” Rowling replied: “‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. JK Rowling has increasingly become a target of leftist activists - despite being a left-wing feminist herself - after she defended the concept of biological sex in June, saying that “it isn’t hate to speak the truth”. Wise up, stand up straight and carry on,'” he added. “They wouldn’t have won the war, would they? That’s me talking like a grumpy old man, but you just think, ‘Oh, get over yourself. I don’t know why but there’s a whole Twitter generation of people who hang around waiting to be offended,” Coltrane told the Radio Times. “I don’t think what she said was offensive really. Twitter adds a label to the #RIPJKRowling hashtag to clarify she is, indeed, not dead /W9IudFIW5Cīritish actor Robbie Coltrane, who stared as Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series, came to the defence of Rowling, saying that he did not believe her previous statements on transgenderism and feminism were offensive. The online outrage mob picked up on a review of the book in the Sunday Telegraph, by Jake Kerridge who wrote: “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.”Ĭelebrities and activists quickly took to social media to denounce Rowling as a ‘transphobe’ for writing the plotline, causing the hashtag #RIPJKRowling to trend on Twitter, forcing the tech giant to add a disclaimer to notify the public that the Harry Potter author was still alive.įormer Nickelodeon actress and singer Kira Kosarin wrote: “RIP JK Rowling, she’s not dead, we just don’t acknowledge transphobes in this house.” The new character in the Cormoran Strike series, Dennis Creed, “fetishes women’s clothing… and disguises himself as a woman to trick the person he’s abducting”, a publishing source told The Sun. Rowling’s latest effort, Troubled Blood - written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith - was released on Tuesday and centres around a fictional cold-case of a woman who was murdered in 1974 by a man who has a fetish for wearing female clothes. An online mob descended upon Harry Potter author JK Rowling, accusing her of being transphobic for featuring a transvestite killer in her latest novel.
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