6 reactions to Trump's order barring men from women's sports: 'Sex is real and matters'
1. J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has become an outspoken critic of allowing men into women's spaces and using phrases such as "people who menstruate" to describe females.
In a Thursday X post, the author shared a photo of Trump signing the "No Men in Women's Sports" executive order at the White House, surrounded by a large crowd of female athletes and coaches. Rowling sarcastically thanked individuals on the left “campaigning to destroy women’s and girls’ rights” for the image.
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“Without you, there’d be no images like this,” she added.
The fantasy author asserted in a follow-up X post that gender ideology “has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity.” She also accused the ideology of inflicting “irreparable physical damage” upon vulnerable children.
“Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it has been imposed, top down, by politicians, healthcare bodies, academia, sections of the media, celebrities and even the police,” Rowling wrote.
“Its activists have threatened and enacted violence on those who've dared oppose it. People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it,” she continued. “Jobs have been lost and lives have been ruined, all for the crime of knowing that sex is real and matters.”
Rowling began to face pushback from trans activists after she defended Maya Forstater in 2019, a tax researcher who lost her job for stating the fact that men identifying as female are not women. The author clarified her stance in a 2020 essay, saying that she is concerned with the "huge explosion in young women wishing to transition,” a decision that she noted can do irreversible damage to one’s body.
"I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode 'woman' as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it," Rowling wrote at the time.
"I stand alongside the brave women and men, gay, straight and trans, who're standing up for freedom of speech and thought, and for the rights and safety of some of the most vulnerable in our society: young gay kids, fragile."
Samantha Kamman is a reporter for The Christian Post. She can be reached at: samantha.kamman@christianpost.com. Follow her on Twitter: @Samantha_Kamman
