{"id":564011,"date":"2026-03-27T09:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564011\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:14:14","slug":"jk-rowling-declares-victory-as-olympics-bans-trans-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564011\/","title":{"rendered":"JK Rowling declares victory as Olympics bans trans athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"

JK Rowling has declared victory after the Olympics announced a ban on transgender athletes competing in women’s events<\/a> – before taking a swipe at Algerian boxer Imane Khelif. <\/p>\n

Taking to social media, the legendary British author described the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) decision as a “welcome return to fair sport for women and girls”. <\/p>\n

Ms Rowling attached an image of the boxer to the post.<\/p>\n

The Algerian took home the gold medal despite having been disqualified from the previous year\u2019s World Championships for allegedly failing to meet gender eligibility criteria.<\/p>\n

Khelif has consistently denied being a biological male and has sought treatment to lower testosterone levels since the 2024 games. <\/p>\n

The 26-year-old fighter has, however, opened the door to taking a sex test in order to compete in future events. <\/p>\n

\"JK<\/p>\n

JK Rowling described the IOC’s decision as a ‘welcome return to fair sport for women and girls’<\/p>\n

| GETTY<\/p>\n

“Of course, I would accept doing anything I’m required to do to participate in competitions,” Khelif said.<\/p>\n

“They should protect women, but they need to pay attention that while protecting women, they shouldn’t hurt other women.”<\/p>\n

During the Paris games, the IOC asserted that \u201cscientifically, this is not a man fighting a woman\u201d after the Algerian came under fire on social media. <\/p>\n

But announcing the ban, the IOC said that its own research indicates that being born male confers physical advantages that are retained.<\/p>\n

JK ROWLING – READ THE LATEST:<\/p>\n

\"ImaneImane Khelif won gold at the 2024 Olympics | PA<\/p>\n

The document said: “Males experience three significant testosterone peaks: in utero, in mini-puberty of infancy and beginning in adolescent puberty through adulthood.”<\/p>\n

It added that this gives males “individual sex-based performance advantages in sports and events that rely on strength, power and\/or endurance.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, IOC president Kirsty Coventry said: “As a former athlete, I passionately believe in the rights of all Olympians to take part in fair competition.<\/p>\n

“The policy that we have announced is based on science and has been led by medical experts.<\/p>\n

\"KirstyKirsty Coventry has repeatedly affirmed her desire to ‘protect the female category’ | GETTY<\/p>\n

“At the Olympic Games, even the smallest margins can be the difference between victory and defeat.<\/p>\n

“So, it is absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category.”<\/p>\n

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, also an outspoken gender-critical campaigner, threw her support behind the new policy, saying: “At least now little girls who dream of Olympic medals will know that biological males can’t cheat their way onto their podium…or punch them relentlessly in the face and get a medal for it.<\/p>\n

“Credit to Sharron Davies and Martina Navratilova, who spoke up despite attacks from those who should’ve known better. <\/p>\n

“They spoke up when it was easier to stay quiet and paid the price in lost income and support.”<\/p>\n

While Donald Trump congratulated the IOC, adding: “This is only happening because of my powerful executive order, standing up for women and girls.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JK Rowling has declared victory after the Olympics announced a ban on transgender athletes competing in women’s events…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,3332,61363,8358,44,4963,457,82],"class_list":["post-564011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrity","tag-jk-rowling","tag-lgbt","tag-news","tag-olympics","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}