J.K. Rowling Is Just a Misogynist

JK Rowling joined other celebrities like Elon Musk and Logan in attacking women who were participating in this year's Olympics because they believed them to be transgender women. They weren't, and what this reveals to me is that JK Rowling and her ilk are nothing more than just misogynists.

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[KatBlaque]

I made this video to completely explain these points but here is a summary for the impatient and eager:

- Imane Khalif comes from a country where it is illegal for her to medically transition so there is no feasible way that she is a transgender woman nor would she represent her country on a grand stage while being transgender.

- THERE IS NO ACTUAL PROOF OF HER HAVING XY CHROMOSOMES NOR ELEVATED TESTOSTERONE. If you have been told that, that is not true. The details of the IBA’s “gender test” have not been released. We do not know what they say. JK Rowling’s main issue Is she hasn’t seen the tests.

-Khelif was initially accused of being a man because she was winning against a Russian opponent. The IBA is a Russian organization. They challenged her gender to maintain the record of Azalia Amineva who had been on a winning streak.

- So essentially the idea that Imane Khelif is a man is Russian propaganda that JK Rowling and many others fell for because, to them, she does not look feminine. To their western eyes, she looks masculine especially when up against a white woman. That is why it is misogynistic. They are robbing her of her womanhood because she is successful at her sport and to them, she does not look feminine. It is text book misogyny.

- and my ultimate point is that IF Imane Khelif does have elevated testosterone, that’s stil something natural to her as a cis woman. So the idea that she becomes a biological man purely because of that would be shifting the previously stated requirements of being born a woman to be a woman.

- So JK Rowling removing her from womanhood is proof that even cis women do not always measure up and typically when someone scrutinizes a woman in this way, we plainly name it misogynistic.

[archsage]

The funniest part is that when Rowling learned she was getting sued, she went silent and deleted like 27 tweets only to post another one attacking the person suing her for slander.

[theforgetfulalchemist]

I'm an intersex woman (Turner's Syndrome) and I remember this happening to an intersex athlete when I was a kid and just starting to take HRT
People called her a man/hermaphrodite and called for her to get T tests
It made teenage me, already self conscious about taking estrogen, feel so bad about myself

[lena]

One of the reasons why Lin Yu-ting chose boxing was because of domestic violence in her childhood, she wanted to protect her mother. Her family was poor, after her father left home, her mother raised four children alone. When she won her first prize money, what she most hoped for was ‘ Give it to mom! ’ billionaires will never know this heavenly joy

( but Rowling, a single mother who has been poor, might know? )

[crazydicelady]

"We can always tell."

Proceeds to not be able to tell.

[pinnipes]

wow how did logan paul manage to give the worst non-apology possible

[Thandiel]

I’m a butch lesbian with PCOS and I’ve never once been threatened by a trans woman. I have however been threatened by people who’ve perceived me as a trans woman on numerous occasions. Fighting against transmisogyny IS a fight against misogyny, and protecting trans women ultimately protects all women

[idontneedaname]

"they can choose not to cause injury" is SO BAFFLING when it's _literally boxing?_

[laurettelaliberte]

When I was a little girl, I was a huge boxing fan. I used to tell people I wanted to be the first female heavyweight champion. I was laughed at and teased mercilessly (this was the 70s). I applaud the courage of these women to live their dream despite the hardship and backlash.

[synesthesia.aesthetic]

How are trans women simultaneously reducing womanhood to a costume of hyperfemininity and then turn around say Khalif is a man because she doesn't put on a costume of hyperfemininity. I am confusion, Joanne!

[botanicalitus]

As an arabic woman from the middle east, I grew up surrounded by people who look like Iman. So it was genuinely so weird to me that there was a controversy about her "looking like a guy" because lots of MENA Iadies look like her.

YT peopIe really think the world revolves around them and their features. Iman is beautiful and most beautiful and feminine about her are her gorgeous north african features

[Hotsauceweird]

There's also a misogyny in seeing women excel at a sport and immediately call them men. You don't actually "support" women athletes because you actually think women aren't capable of that level of athleticism.

[michaelwyatt]

There's a reason the Olympics stopped gender testing in 1999, way more people (it was almost exclusively women being subjected to DNA testing) were finding out that their chromosomes don't match what we learned in high school, cause surprise surprise our bodies development is way more complicated.

[perisceris]

I'm a trans man. Growing up, I was constantly policed over my lack of femininity, how I didn't dress like a woman, how I didn't behave like a woman. I had long hair most of my life but once I got a pixie cut, I was also chastised for not looking like a woman (and yes, I am not white). A constant denial of my girlhood because I was not performing it right. But curiously, now that I am out as a trans man, now that I am testosterone dominant--which according to people like JK Rowling disqualifies women like Imane from being a woman, regardless of what's in her pants or what her chromosomes are--people like her are bending backwards to call me a woman. Suddenly "having high testosterone doesn't mean I'm not a woman", yet that doesn't apply to Imane. They can't even operate by their own logic, they can only work on whatever is the most transphobic thing to say, even if it contradicts what they stated before.

[juratory]

Someone needs to take the internet away from Joanne.

[purplepitbullpuppy]

I noticed you're not censoring the word "rapist" out of fear of demonetization... Huge respect!!!

[IdeationSketches]

The fact that J.K. Rowling came after these women while simultaneously kept absolutely quiet about the child rapist competing, tells me all I need to know about her and her motives. Her transphobia is way bigger than any concern she has for women.

[moustik]

I have nothing to say about it: we called it early on, we tried to warn people, that "protect cis women" transphobes will end up harming cis women, who happened to be deemed "undesirable" according to w. supremacy standards. It's still heartbreaking to watch it unfold.
💔💔💔

[jenniferesein]

I'm very much afab out-and-out female woman and I've been mistake for a man more times than I care to admit. I'm also very much visibly African Blackety Black. It's not lost on me that these women are being accused of being stealth men in disguised. I don't know how you can look at Khalif and think "that's a man!" It makes me mad and I don't even like sports, but I hope she and Liu win all the fights.

[allenalexander]

It's just so wild because all JK had to do was be rich and be quiet.