J.K. Rowling Misgenders Female Boxer Amid Olympics Controversy

Author and outspoken critic of the transgender community J.K. Rowling slammed the Olympics after women’s boxer Imane Khelif defeated Italy’s Angela Carini in a fight Thursday.

The creator of “Harry Potter” turned to X, formerly Twitter, to complain about the boxing match, which saw Algeria’s Khelif lay into Carini for 46 seconds before the Italian boxer quit the bout.

In her post, Rowling repeatedly misgendered Khelif, who is a cisgender woman disqualified from the 2023 women’s world championships after officials claimed an unspecified “gender eligibility test” showed the athlete had a Y chromosome and elevated levels of testosterone.

Khelif previously competed in the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo in the women’s division without fanfare.

Nonetheless, Rowling shared a photo of a crying Carini with Khelif appearing to comfort her opponent following their fight and wrote, “Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better?”

“The smirk of a male who’s knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered,” she continued.

Rowling followed the post up by sharing an opinion piece from The Telegraph, which claimed that Khelif’s genetics put her at an unfair advantage against her opponents.

But it could be argued that many, if not most, world-class athletes have some sort of biological edge.

Almost all Olympians were genetically blessed with bodies that let them excel at their sport, be it their size or other advantageous physical characteristics.

In fact, a 2023 paper published in the journal Genes found at least 251 genetic markers linked to athletic traits like endurance, power or strength.

One prominent