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.

Only if your definition of a transwoman is a criminal who purposely dons female clothing in order to disguise his intentions. Because that's the character she wrote.

Imagine trotting that misrepresentation out again, even after it's been debunked dozens of times. Nobody who has actually read the book could have made that claim. The numpty who claimed in his pre-publication review that JKR had made her serial murderer a transwoman really showed himself up, as she had done nothing of the sort, but of course 'A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.'

Oh come now. We all know that a fictional character disguising themselves in a woman's coat is totally as bad as a fictional character who rapes, tortures and murders women as revenge for existing.

Don't you know that a lot of people in real life were totally harmed very badly by the existence of that fictional coat? 👀

Is reading a whole book a bit hard?

To be fair, the one with the not-trans-but-murderously-wearing-female-clothes character is quite a long book. And you have to be paying attention to pick out the ‘wearing female clothes’ bits from the [other more relevant plot spoiling devices] bits.

I won't name the book for spoiler reasons but Agatha Christie has a male villain escaping a crime scene wearing make up and a head scarf. I was shocked at this shocking plot point. When is Agatha going to be taken to task?

And the so-called Cambridge Rapist, Peter Samuel Cook was arrested escaping from the scene of the crime disguised with a long blonde wig. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Samuel_Cook

She does do illustrated books so maybe that's an option.

Evidently 🤣

Every time I see @MargaritaPie 's name I am reminded of the glorious Margarita Pracatan (I'm dyslexic and this is just how my brain works). What an extraordinary woman she was. Anyway, despite our many differences in opinions @MargaritaPie , thanks for reminding me to introduce my DC to MP in all her fabulousness.

I'm always reminded of her too, always makes me smile.

Josephine Tey, PD James, Jane Austen, Dorothy Dunnett, Ellis Peters and Dorothy L Sayers, to name but a few, also all wrote books in which persons of one sex wore clothes of the other sex, often for more than two sentences. It’s rather frequently done as a plot device.