"Harry Potter" author Rowling has been absent from social media for several days, after erroneously calling female Olympic boxer Khelif a "man."

Author J.K. Rowling has fallen silent on her usually busy X (formerly Twitter) feed, after Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif filed a legal complaint in France for alleged cyber harassment over statements regarding her gender.

On August 9, lawyers for Khelif filed a lawsuit with a special unit of the public prosecutor’s office in Paris, stemming from false statements that spread online about her gender after the Algerian boxer defeated Italy’s Angela Carini in her first fight of the 2024 Olympic Games. Carini pulled out 46 seconds into the bout and told reporters afterwards that she had “never felt a punch like this.”

    • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Only because she attacked a cis woman. No consequences from the years doing everything in her power to targetedly harass individual trans peolle, the community as a whole or publishing books about trans serial killers.

      Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy to see her go quite, I hope she stays that way. But I’m bitter it wasn’t a realization that her crusade was mysgonstic hatred, only that she was a zealot who accidently friendly fired.

      • MindTraveller@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 months ago

        This isn’t friendly fire. TERFism is inherently white supremacist and Khelif was targeted for her race.

        • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          I abundetly agree that is correct. But I am doing my best to try to think of her personal viewpoint, in JK’s mind she is defending women from men. Hell, her stupid books are a racist allegory for how evil racism is, but when she gets praised from literaly white supramcists and dictarors, she makes excuses for being the greater good.

          It’s only when from her twisted perspective, she (for the first time) attacked an “actual woman”, that she is finally giving pause. JK thinks she is feminist even if all she has done in actuality is outright misogyny. Which is why I am so frustrated, she didn’t wake up to what a monster she has been, just that she needs to be more careful in who she “righteously” attacks.

          • MindTraveller@lemmy.caEnglish
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            3 months ago

            TERFism restricts feminism to a tightly defined and controlled ingroup. The criteria for determining who is a real woman, when employed by bigots, will inevitably come to describe the socially dominant form of femininity, which is white femininity. Black and Arab women like Khelif will always fail to pass the standards of white femininity, because they’re not white. The standards are racist. And TERFs invariably pick racist standards, because the kind of people who feel the need to police womanhood to appeal to an imagined ideal are people who will end up doing that in more ways than one. And also, TERFs are always hanging out and allying with overly white supremacist groups, because Nazis are the only people who will put up with assholes like Rowling. That’s why she’s always taking photos with fascists.

  • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Heaven forbid she lose money. Literally the only thing that could make her stop briefly pause harassing people on the internet.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      She has billions. No matter how much she loses she’ll still be obscenely rich.

    • microphone900@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      I haven’t seen any reporting confirming that she’s got XY chromosomes. But if you have an article, please correct me if I’m wrong. What I’ve been able to find is this:

      Banned governing body that’s fueling outcry on Olympic boxers has Russian ties and troubled history

      Summary-

      • The disqualification was done in a tournament run by an organization banned by the Olympics.

      • She participated in tournaments run by this organization with no issues for the last several years.

      • The organization hasn’t said why she was disqualified.

      • The man spouting the ‘trans woman’ claims is the leader of the organization. He’s a friend of Putin and described as a drug trafficker.

      • Her disqualification happened after she beat the previously undefeated Russian boxer Amineva 3 days post fight.

      There’s more in the article, but these are the quick bullet points I came up with.

            • AngryishHumanoid@reddthat.com
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              3 months ago

              Why does she have to? Why would she have a copy of a test allegedly done by a 3rd party that, based on news reports, was just using it as an excuse to eliminate her for beating a Russian opponent?

              • Snowflake@sh.itjust.works
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                3 months ago

                Do you know she doesn’t have the test results? When I get medical tests done I usually do receive the test results.

                There are news reports saying she’s a man if you care so much about news reports.

                It’s funny how it works both ways. She doesn’t have to release the results. And they don’t have to release them so you can verify it either. Playing your own stupid game. Why do they have to release the results?

                • AngryishHumanoid@reddthat.com
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                  3 months ago

                  You seem to be misunderstanding, intentionally I would guess. They claimed they did a test to “confirm” she was not a woman, I’m saying that’s a steaming hot load of bullshit and they were just looking for an excuse and they have no results to release.

                  Please cite your sources saying there are news reports that she’s a man.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I’m a Conservative championing Genital Inspections on Children to make sure ONLY PEOPLE with Vaginas play Girl’s Sports but also THIS Women with a Vagina is ACTUALLY A MAN!