TPA Read what she said about Imane Khelif, a young Muslim woman in whose country it's illegal to be trans. Look at how she publicly treated her, based upon little more than rumours and Khelif's appearance.
Khelif is a massive inspiration and fantastic female role-model for young girls in Algeria. They love her for that.
JKR's targeting of a brown Muslim woman has been noted by people normally uninterested in her anti-trans comments. She isn't a doctor, or on the Olympic Committee. It's horrific what she's put that young woman (who's lost plenty of matches to other cis women btw) and others through.
Oh dear, TPA, now you've really done it! Bringing up Imane Khelif was an own goal.
Khelif is not trans, never has been trans, has never been considered trans.
Khelif is not a woman. Even Khelif's own 'management' and medical team have admitted that he has some 'chromosomal anomalies' which boil down to having the chromosome that make a person a man, not a woman.
Khelif has failed eligibility tests in the past, but at the time he took part in the Paris Olympics the IOC was not carrying out any tests: a passport that said you were female is all that was needed.
Khelif is indeed held up as a 'fantastic role model for young girls in Algeria', which when you think about it is very sad for young girls in Algeria - role models who are actually female would be much better wouldn't you agree?
I believe [ not a commonly shared believe, but one that I've shared on this board before] that Khelif was mistakenly IDed as a girl at birth and I believe that he was brought up as a girl.
I think it's disgraceful and unethical that when the medical people around him had incontrovertible proof that he was a male with a male DSD, they didn't surround him with the care and support he needed to come to terms with the reality of his biological sex.
Instead, they - and it goes right up to the top in politics and national sporting bodies in his country - pushed him to continue living a lie, so he could 'be a role model', win gold for his country, etc etc.
Of course he should have done the decent thing and stopped boxing against women, but he was too caught up in the gears of the machine that needed him to be a woman, although it knew he was not. 'Being a woman' was also his, and his family's, ticket out of poverty.
What happened to his threatened lawsuit against JKR et al.? That didn't get very far, did it?
Oh and by the way: Khelif lost to women at lower weights, before he moved up to the 66kg category. The fact that he has been through male puberty meant that the extra kilos he put on between the Tokyo and Paris Olympics were mostly muscle, making him a very different physical threat at 66kg [welterweight] than at 57-60kg [lightweight].
Building his body up to 66kg also emphasised typically male physical characteristics which were less obvious when he was younger and boxing at the lower weight. At 66kg, he looked like the man he is.
edited for spelling. Also to specify 'Paris Olympics' as IK also boxed in the Tokyo Olympics.