J.K. Rowling Is NOT Dead Despite #RIPJKRowling Trending On Twitter
J.K. Rowling is not dead but fans are still out for blood.
Ahead of the release of the author’s book called “Troubled Blood” which is about a male serial killer who dresses as a woman while on violent killing sprees — social media users completely blasted her. Some even took their hate for her to the next level by declaring her “dead” with the #RIPJKRowling hashtag. It made its way to the top of the Twitter trending charts. One user wrote, “In memory of jk rowling. she ain’t dead, but she killed her own career by proudly hating trans people & no one would really miss her that much anyway.” Another added, “Imagine getting cancelled so hard, we have to pretend that you died.”
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Rowling has previously been called out for a slew of controversial comments about the trans community. Back in June, she even spoke out to defend to herself after receiving backlash for her controversial remarks. In a lengthy post, she also revealed that she was sexually assaulted as a young woman.
“I’m concerned about the huge explosion in young women wishing to transition and also about the increasing numbers who seem to be detransitioning (returning to their original sex), because they regret taking steps that have, in some cases, altered their bodies irrevocably, and taken away their fertility,” she wrote, according to the a New York Post.
Her new book, “Troubled Blood” follows a private detective, Cormoran Strike, as he investigates a cisgender male serial killer who uses women’s clothing to kill female victims. As the news site notes, using the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, it’s the fifth book in Rowling’s Cormoran Strike series using the pen name. In “The Silkworm,” the second novel in the series, Rowling portrays a trans character as being “unstable and aggressive.”
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