Trans author has come under fire for 'killing off' JK Rowling in new horror novel

[Magicpaintbrush]

https://uk.yahoo.com/style/trans-author-come-under-fire-140000697.html

This on Yahoo News - horrible. A sick, misogynistic fantasy that sounds like it comes from a very male place to me.

It’s grotesque. “Trans dykes fucking and murdering terfs” doesn’t sound like anything to shout about to me. Just the same old boring-as-fuck male violence against women.

It's also a spectacularly cheeky fucker way of getting massive amounts of publicity for you're book when you're a complete nobody.

'Your' - I wish I could edit posts

They’ll sell about 18 books, mostly to perverts. I don’t think JKR is looking over her shoulder. Except in the police sense, obviously.

@tabbycatstripy

They’ll sell about 18 books, mostly to perverts. I don’t think JKR is looking over her shoulder. Except in the police sense, obviously.

You forget 'other'

There's another thread about this

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4532383-Novel-by-Trans-Woman-author-features-death-of-JK-Rowling-removal-of-womb-from-Black-Woman

In the Times today:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/293c1f0c-c192-11ec-8413-422ef6319ad0?shareToken=d8d6e3a35867aed76ba098b5fa48f26e

It's difficult because the fact that such hate is allowed to be published needs to be highlighted. Would the publisher have published this if it switched out TERFs for black people? I certainly hope not!

And yet talking about it raises it's profile and gets the author's face and name in the media. That is likely to spawn more such publications.

Shocking. Men People have been allowed to get away with so much on twitter, they think it extends to the real world too.

Agree that it sounds grotesque, and as if it’s been written by a teenager who has no grasp of nuance.

Shocking. Pervert expresses perversions.

Tor books (the publisher of this particularly sorry specimen) are distributed by Macmillan Publishers. Wouldn't it be great if some of Macmillan's authors decided to leave the imprint in protest and look for a new publisher?

The book should be banned.
Not surprising there is one rule for trans, another for the rest of the population.

Apparently women politely saying they want to keep single-sex spaces creates a climate that increases violence against trans people. But writing an entire book about extreme violence towards women doesn't increase violence against women?

RoyalCorgi
"Apparently women politely saying they want to keep single-sex spaces creates a climate that increases violence against trans people. But writing an entire book about extreme violence towards women doesn't increase violence against women?"

Absolutely. I suppose I should be shocked by the hypocrisy, but for some reason...!

My first response to hearing about this was that it shouldn't be given any publicity - it's violent hate and misogyny.

But actually I don't think it should be banned - let it get the publicity, let people see exactly what this author's fantasies involve.

Sunlight, always.

One reviewer, Damien D’Enfer, wrote: “Filled with rage and violence towards women, including torture, murder and rape, this hateful book should not be on Amazon. What used to be a movement built on love, the LGBT+ wunderkinds have demolished any goodwill towards our community with the most hateful behaviour imaginable.”

Yep.

That about nails it, yes.

I won't refer to myself as LGBT+ any more. It's not a 'community' I want any part of.

@DomesticatedZombie "Sunlight, always" - absolutely! Seeing the pathetic attempt by TRAs to award one star reviews on Amazon to Helen Joyce's Trans, very few of which have the "Verified purchase" tag (unlike the vastly more numerous positive reviews, most of them five star) exposes the shallowness of playing stupid games. Truth will out.

Didn't JK Rowling write a book where the villain was a transwoman (or at least a transvestite)?

This just reinforces the message that men retain their aggressive nature even when they don a flowery dress! I feel genuinely sorry for those that don’t.

You’d need to read her books and also define your terms, Margarita.

She wrote a book that has a transgender character. She wrote a different book involving a male murderer who bundles himself up in a woman’s coat as a plot point. There’s no hint that he considers himself a woman, no.

Do the many other detective novels featuring disguises also mean that the characters were trans, even if they didn’t know it? Or is that only true when applied to JK Rowling’s work?

Well the Author, Gretchen, sounds like the type of gentle, caring girl that I’d be completely happy to share a space with…. Absolutely can’t see any problem or discomfort with that at all….

I thought it was illegal to issue death threats? How can that book be considered anything but a threat?