J.K. Rowling’s new novel has just been released and deals with transphobia – a hot topic concerning her. However, she denies wanting to settle accounts with her detractors, with whom she has sometimes had violent disputes, including with certain stars of films based on her works.

The Black Ink Heart (in V.O) is the new opus in his series of detective stories written under his pseudonym Robert Galbraith, The Cormoran Strike Investigations. In this book, published by Grasset in France, a YouTube cartoonist named Edie Ledwell is taken to task for racism and transphobia by trolls and fans for comments made by one of her animated characters, a hermaphrodite worm. . Cyberbullying, with “doxing”, and threats are violent against the designer until the day she is found stabbed to death in a cemetery.

In real life, J.K. Rowling was heavily criticized for making fun of an article containing the phrase “menstruating” – circumlocution to include trans men who menstruate because this article, an editorial, evoked only people who menstruate, not postmenopausal cis women – and the publication of an essay, JK Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking Out on Sex and Gender Issues. She develops the reasons why she speaks out on sex and gender issues. A test very badly received by the transgender community, in particular.

However, the author assures that her last novel was written before the events “happens last year” and is not a response to her situation. “The first draft of the novel was finished when certain things happened,” she said on Virgin Radio UK’s The Graham Norton Radio Show.