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The children's author JK Rowling is being "canceled" on Twitter after it emerged her latest book featured a male killer who wears dresses as he kills his female victims.

It follows a string of comments Rowling has made about transgender people, making fun of gender-inclusive terms, and calling for an end to gender-affirming care for young trans people.

Jake Kerridge of The Telegraph wrote the novel's "moral seems to be: never trust a man in a dress," and features a male serial killer who wears a dress to kill his cisgender female victims.

As explored in the Netflix documentary "Disclosure," the trope of a "male killer in a dress" implies transgender women are violent murderers and psychopaths. It has been used in films like "Silence of the Lambs" and "Psycho."