For once, J.K. Rowling isn’t tweeting through it — and by “it,” I mean her near-pathological fixation on trans women and girls. As of this writing, the author has not posted on X since August 7.
Taking 12 days off from posting on X is highly unusual for the Harry Potter author, who posted or reposted 18 times on August 7 alone. Four days later, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif filed a complaint that named Rowling, Elon Musk, and other public figures as being part of a massive cyberbullying campaign against her. Plenty of X users observed that the timing was worth noting.
X user @Cooperstreaming pointed out that Rowling had stopped tweeting since before Khelif filed her lawsuit: “Excited to see someone fighting back, & to potentially have it laid bare in court: Rowling doesn’t care about women,” she wrote. “The protecting ‘real women’ was always a lie, an excuse for hating trans women.”
If you need a recap, a right-wing firestorm descended upon Khelif after her match against Italian boxer Angela Carini on August 2 at the Paris Olympics. Carini withdrew after 46 seconds, citing the pain from Khelif’s punches. Though the Italian boxer later said that she had nothing against the Algerian boxer, right-wing figures around the world, including J.K. Rowling, immediately started accusing Khelif, a cisgender woman, of being secretly “male.” Rowling went as far as to misgender Khelif and call her “a male who knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered.”
Even a global harassment campaign couldn’t stop Khelif from winning gold, though, making her the first African, Algerian, and Arab woman to claim the top medal in her spot. Less than a week after she won, she filed a harassment complaint in France, claiming that she was the victim of “moral harassment” on a “massive” and “coordinated” scale.
Her achievements in boxing weren’t the only medal-worthy feat according to X users. One person tweeted, “If the case does nothing else, Imane Khelif gave us the first week of absolute silence from JK Rowling in about five years and that alone is worth another gold medal.”
Journalist Molly Taft alleged that Rowling’s tweets were “a supremely idiotic way to commit libel,” considering that “she claimed that khelif was purposefully abusing women based on a photo of…an olympic boxing match,” in addition to misgendering her.
Rowling has posted about how willing she is to go to jail for her seemingly endless transphobic posts, most recently in April. And in October, she even said she’d “happily” do two years in prison “if the alternative is compelled speech and forced denial of the reality and importance of sex,” which we think means that she’d prefer to go to jail than use someone’s correct pronouns. Ok!
Of course, we do not currently have any way of knowing why Rowling has paused tweeting. But as the old adage goes, silence is golden, especially when we’re talking about J.K. Rowling being so fixated on trans people that even Elon Musk suggested she find something new to talk about.
Twelve days since our last Joanne-related incident has to be a new record, and it’s a record that we hope she continues to break day after day.
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