J.K. Rowling recently told Graham Norton that her new novel “The Ink Black Heart” is not based on her own experience, which has been criticized as a transgender hater despite the appearance of a character who finds themselves in a similar firestorm on social media (via rolling rock). The new book, published under Rowling’s pseudonym Robert Galbraith, is part of Rowling’s crime thriller series “Cormoran Strike” and includes a character named Eddie Lidwell, “the creator of the popular YouTube cartoon that sees online trolls and fans later turn on her.” The cartoon has been criticized caricatured as racist and capable, as well as transgender-hating due to a hermaphrodite worm.”
As reported by Rolling Stone, the character in the novel is “covered with pictures of her home plastered online, subjected to death and rape threats for speaking out, and eventually is found stabbed to death in a cemetery. The book takes a clear target of the “Social Justice Warriors” and suggests that Lidwell was The victim of a brilliantly orchestrated and politically fueled hate campaign against her.”
“I have to really make it clear after some of the things that happened last year that this doesn’t portray it [that]Denying her fight against allegations of transphobia had nothing to do with the book’s inspiration, Rowling told Norton. “I had written the book before certain things happened to me online. I told my husband, “I think everyone will see this as a response to what happened to me,” but it wasn’t really the case. The first draft of the book was completed at a point certain things happened.”
Rowling has been the subject of controversy for several years now due to her sexual beliefs and a series of anti-transgender tweets published in 2020. Rowling argued at the time that the discussion of gender identity negates biological sex. Several “Harry Potter” stars have spoken out against Rowling for her beliefs, including Daniel Radcliffe. the actor wrote a letter that “Transgender women are women…Any statement to the contrary erodes transgender identity and dignity and goes against all advice offered by health-care professional associations that have far more experience on the subject than either Joe or I.”
Earlier this year, Rowling feuded online with Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, over the country’s gender recognition reform bill, which aims to simplify the means by which a transgender person can legally change their gender through Obtaining a gender recognition certificate. The certificate allows the transgender person to obtain a new birth certificate with their correct gender.
“Nicola Sturgeon’s attempt to pass it on in Scotland will harm the most vulnerable women in society: those who seek help after male violence/rape and women in prison,” Rowling Posted on Twitter In defiance of the bill before Parliament. “Statistics show that women who are already in prison are more likely to be abused than before.”
Sturgeon said she “fundamentally disagrees” with Rowling on the claim that the reform bill “would harm the most vulnerable in society.” The first minister stressed that the bill was all about the process and would not change safe places for women.
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