Last year, Khelif was banned from competing in the Women’s World Championships.
Harry Potter universe creator J.K. Rowling is back turned out to be is embroiled in a gender identity scandal. This time, against the backdrop of the 2024 Olympics and the fight between Italy’s Angela Carini and her Algerian rival Iman Khelif.
The fight between Karini and Khelif ended after 46 seconds: after receiving several accurate hooks, Karini stopped the fight and declared that she had “never experienced such blows.” Later, Karini refused a handshake, cried and screamed that it was “unfair.”
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The fight was controversial. Iman Khelif was allowed to compete in the Olympics, although she was disqualified from the women’s world championship last year after failing a gender test.
The Women’s World Boxing Championships were run by the International Boxing Association, which banned Khelif from participating, but the Olympic Games are run by the International Olympic Committee, which has more lenient rules for competitors.
The fact is that Khelif has a disorder of sexual development. The athlete has a male set of chromosomes, has a testosterone level in the male range, but is a woman.
Many considered this balance of power unfair. Including J.K. Rowling, who in her post on the social network X called Iman Khelif a man and, as expected, did not receive support from everyone.
Joan Rowling
writer
Could any photograph better sum up our new men’s rights movement? The smirk of a man who knows he is protected by a misogynistic sports institution and relishes the misfortune of the woman he has just hit over the head and whose ambitions he has just destroyed.
The writer also wrote a letter to the International Olympic Committee and called their attempts to protect Khelif a “joke.”
Joan Rowling
writer
A young female boxer just had everything she worked and trained for taken away from her because you let a man get in the ring with her.
Despite this, Rowling was again called transphobic on the social network and was offered to write another book about wizards instead of comments.
The writer has been defending her opinion for several years now regarding the fact that a person can only have two genders: XX (female) and XY (male), and that trans women cannot be considered real women. With enviable regularity, both ordinary users and celebrity colleagues disagree with Rowling’s opinion.
However, the writer continues to defend her opinion and even expressed her willingness to go to prison for it.
