Rowling Rages Against Olympic Women’s Boxing Debacle

If you follow @jk_rowling, as more than 14 million twixters do, you know that she is working hard to raise the awareness of these followers to include the injustice being done to women competitors at the Paris 2024 Olympics. She has tweeted and reposted sixteen tweets on this subject between 30 July and 3 August. Here is an example that has received well over one hundred million views:

The story was broken by Reduxx Magazine, an online journal dedicated to stories that are “Pro Woman, Pro Child Safe-Guarding, Anti-Bullsh*t.” Their 27 July story, ‘TWO “Female Boxers” Set To Compete At Paris 2024 Were Previously Disqualified From Women’s World Championship For Having “XY Chromosomes”,’ spells out the madness of what is happening in Paris (for the shorter version, see this comprehensive twixter thread by one of the @Reduxx editors). In brief, the two boxers are men who were raised as women because of their DSD, a birth defect.

They are believed to be impacted by a Difference of Sexual Development, in which there is a developmental abnormality in secondary sex characteristics. This is a medical condition which can manifest with children being born with ambiguous or disfigured genitalia. Male children impacted by DSDs are often “assigned female at birth” due to these genital defects, as there is a genuine assumption they are girls.

Read the whole article or twixter thread. You’ll be astonished by how much this story has been changed in the telling. Rowling, per her feminist core beliefs, is on the side of the women boxers who are being beaten up by male boxers with DSD:

Three notes to this twixter tornado or ‘twister’ after the jump!

First, we have to understand that this public beating of women by men is a function, as is almost every Olympic Games controversy, to the incompetence and corruption of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). From the Reduxx article:

“The IOC’s decision to end sex-verification screening in 2000 has caused distrust and confusion in women’s sports ever since,” ICONS co-founder Marshi Smith said. “Its 2021 decision to offload the responsibility for international eligibility criteria to individual sporting bodies has resulted in varied standards and widespread chaos among athletes, coaches, officials, and the public.”

Smith notes that a new boxing qualification system was implemented for the 2024 Olympics in which an ad-hoc unit was created by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board to organize the boxing competitions for Paris 2024.

This new unit was set up after the International Boxing Association (IBA), which had previously disqualified Khelif and Lin from women’s championships, was suspended by the IOC due to concerns it was receiving funding from Russia.

In the FAQ for the Paris 2024 Boxing Unit, no gender eligibility guidelines are specified, something Smith suggests likely indicates that individual nations were given a tremendous amount of power to deem their own athletes eligible.

“In boxing, the recent contentious split between the IBA and the IOC has now placed Olympic eligibility power into the hands of national boxing federations, allowing countries like Algeria and Taiwan to set their own standards and continue placing male boxers in the ring with female athletes in combat for women’s Olympic medals,” Smith explains.

Second, Rowling is getting significant kickback — from Americans at least — about her insistence (see tweet at top of post) that the madness of a man being allowed to beat up a woman as a spectator sport is due to a “misogynistic sporting establishment.” Her critics on this side of the Atlantic point out that just the opposite is likely the case, namely, that the IOC’s fear of being condemned by both feminists and Gender Theory Critics, both of whom have labored to extinguish distinctions between the sexes, is the root of the madness in Paris.

 

 

Third and last, Rowling has stopped tweeting about this issue, one suspects because her yacht is out of internet contact (she’s been on her annual birthday cruise holiday, most recently being spotted in Greenland and British Columbia) rather than any change of heart or diminution of her anger on the subject.

Or could it be that the outbreak of populist protests in the UK akin to the 2020 George Floyd riots in the US has given her pause? You are revealed as a feminist uber alles insisting on that story line when your countrymen, both natives and Asian immigrants, are in open combat in the streets and with the government, very much unlike the Floyd riots, promising to crush the “far-right white nationalist” protesters (see ‘England Burning‘ for the necessary typology of popular rebellions today; the new Labour government, according to that understanding, will use these spontaneous uprisings to crush their political opposition and introduce CCP facial recognition social controls throughout the UK).

Or, even more sobering, maybe it is the incipient war between Iran and Israel, a second proxie war between the US and Russian Federation, that, because the American carrier groups have been moved to the Middle East, open the doors to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan? The stock markets have crashed internationally in anticipation of the very real possibility that oil is about to double or triple in price or nuclear weapons will be unleashed on the Pacific Rim or over Tel Aviv and Tehran or in the Ukraine.

Really, with the news cycle exploding as it has been since the attempted assassination of former President Trump (remember that?), sixteen tweets about Olympic boxing reflects just how profoundly, let’s say “viscerally,” Rowling holds her feminist beliefs. As 2024 plays out, it seems likely that few will remember the beyond parody Paris Olympics, “games” that began with its tasteless opening ceremonies featuring drag queens and has as a highlight men boxing women.