"Harry Potter" author Rowling has been absent from social media for several days, after erroneously calling female Olympic boxer Khelif a "man."

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.”

  • snazzles
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    25 days ago

    Are they more likely to be intersex than just doping with testosterone?

      • snazzles
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        25 days ago

        Does it come up different in the body than just normal testosterone?

        • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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          25 days ago

          Sorry, not a doping expert. Reports of cheating seem to focus on quantity of testosterone, not quality.

          But in this case the discussion is moot. Imane Khelif didn’t have abnormal levels of testosterone.