JK Rowling blasts John Oliver for ‘spouting bull****’ after he ranted women do not face safety threats from competing against trans athletes
author has slammed John Oliver for ‘spouting bulls***’ during a segment on his show in which he said women do not face safety threats from competing against trans athletes.
On the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, Oliver said that there was ‘no evidence [trans athletes] post any threat to safety or fairness.’
‘There are vanishingly few trans girls competing in high schools anywhere,’ Oliver began.
‘Even if there were more, trans kids like all kids vary in athletic ability and there is no evidence they pose any threat to safety or fairness. It is very weird for you to be so focused on this subject.’
Rowling, an avowed anti-trans feminist, described the late night host as ‘an undoubtedly intelligent person spouts absolute bulls*** to support something he wants to be true, but isn’t.’
She added in her post to X: ‘If you want to tell the world you’re happy to watch females suffer injury, humiliation and the loss of sporting opportunities to bolster an elitist post-modern ideology embraced by a minute fraction of the world’s population, fair enough; you’re allowed your opinion.
‘But if you’ve just told girls they don’t deserve fair sport, maybe rethink using all too real and common sexual predation against young women as a punchline for your “edgy” closing joke.’
She cited the case of Payton McNabb, the volleyball player who was left partially paralyzed by a transgender opponent at the age of 17, saying: ‘Girls have been ousted from teams to make way for boys. Women have suffered serious injury playing against trans-identified men.’
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