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submitted 7 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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."

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[-] puppycat 20 points 7 months ago

she's in stage 2 of fucking around lmaoo

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 7 months ago
[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Get fucked you stupid cunt.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Last year boxer was blocked from competing...

What in the Kentucky fried fuck is the editor doing.

[-] joenforcer@midwest.social 21 points 7 months ago

AI editors all the way down.

[-] suction@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

How much money did she make with HP, billions not millions, right? How can she be so dumb spending her life like a bored internet Karen instead of enjoying it to the fullest with no worry whatsoever?

[-] orrk@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

because she is successful, and there is literally no one more vile and disgusting as a rich person, especially if that person happens to be friends with neo-nazis

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[-] militant_spider@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Weirdly, I saw a video online about how people have been looking at videos JKR has been making and the weird coincidence that black mold has allegedly been seen in her backgrounds, given the symptoms of black mold in a person and how the appearance of it lines up with when she started spouting these “opinions.”

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[-] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 15 points 7 months ago

Rowling has been silent on X since August 7, when she shared a post from researcher Maya Forstater, who was fired from her job after making anti-trans statements.

(my emphases)

I don't know where Newsweek takes its facts from but this is another lie pushed by the TERF propaganda machine. Forstater was a tax expert whose contract was not renewed after she was horrible to her trans and non-binary colleagues. (Yes the 'researcher' wording is put there on purpose, to amplify the perception that her freedom of speech was violated, or as Rowling likes to put it 'her livelihood was threatened for disagreeing with the trans lobby'.)

She then went to a labor tribunal court or sth, to claim that her belief in the "immutability and reality of sex" is a protected belief, and made a fuss about being fired for her beliefs, when in reality she was merely discontinued for being a dick to the people she worked with. Her Twitter feed was full of conflating trans people with rapists and pedophiles.

The first judge took into account her definition that requires working plumbing to name someone a woman, and consulted a biological expert, impartial to gender identity, that precluded any scientific basis to Forstater's childish views on biological sex. The judge deemed her belief is "unworthy of respect in a democratic society", but later, an appeal court said she has a right to believe that but she still cannot misgender people.

Critical legal theorists suggested that the appeal court held a very low bar as for what opinions "worthy of respect" should be, and that its ruling should be better interpreted as "marginally better than an outright nazi".

It is a red flag for both the author and the outlet that they lead with a snippet of propaganda which is as false as unsubstantiated claims that Khelif's trans or DSD. So should we conclude both toxic narratives are pushed by the same epicenters?

[-] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 15 points 7 months ago
[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

No need for lawsuits. Put her in the ring. Let her defend her convictions with her face and fists.

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[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Its always X (formerly twitter) and i bet elon hates that.

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[-] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

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https://www.newsweek.com/jk-rowling-imane-khelif-donald-trump-elon-musk-lawsuit-1940241
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[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 months ago

I managed to never see a photo of rowling until now, and she totally looks like my friend's dad in poorly done drag and probably also on hard drugs.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago

good god, she's still digging

I hope Mr Rowling gets some prison time.

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