Why Is JK Rowling Calling a Cisgender Female Olympian a Man?
There are no transgender women at the Olympics, so gender critical “feminists” found someone else to pick on
No transgender women are competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics, but that hasn’t stopped the usual suspects from going on an anti-trans witch hunt.
Instead, they picked boxer Imane Khelif — who looks a little bit too masculine for their liking — and targeted her instead.
After Khelif beat her opponent, Angela Carini, after just 46 seconds in the ring, Rowling and others claimed Khelif must be a man.
The problem with that?
Well, there are many problems with that, obviously, but among them is the fact that Imane Khelif is a cisgender woman.
That hasn’t stopped the likes of JK Rowling or “gender critical” Telegraph columnist Suzanne Moore from referring to Imane Khelif as a “biological male”, implying she’s transgender or intersex, and that therefore she cheated.
Successful boxing career
Khelif, from Algeria — a country which does not allow gender transition and effectively criminalises transgender people’s existence — was assigned female at birth and has lived her entire life…