JK Rowling, famous author of Harry Potter Potter broadcast one of her sports on Tuesday.
The BBC presented its annual Women’s Footballer of the Year award to Zambian player Barbra Banda. Banda withdrew from the Zambia squad for the women’s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco after failing to meet gender eligibility requirements for 2022, the BBC previously reported.
Banda was allowed to compete in the Paris Olympics. and became the second-highest scorer in the United States National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) this season, playing for the Orlando Pride.
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JK Rowling talks about transgender people invading women’s spaces (Getty Images)
Banda received the most votes from BBC readers after being selected by a panel of what the BBC said were “football-related experts” including coaches, players and non-BBC journalists.
Rowling spoke out in a post on X.
“Presumably the BBC decided this was a more effective method than spitting in the faces of women from door to door,” Rowling wrote.
Rowling is one of the most vocal opponents of transgender rights and inclusion. especially in England which is her hometown
The participation of transgender people in women’s sports has become an issue of international debate. And it has become one of the most talked about issues in the 2024 US presidential election.
SJSU women’s volleyball’s first opponent didn’t know about trans player It is recommended that pairing will not happen.
A number of leftists have called for an end to transgender inclusion efforts. (Mark Kerrison/pictured via Getty Images)
in June The survey was conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago Respondents were asked to weigh in on whether transgender athletes of both genders should be allowed to participate in sports leagues that align with their preferred gender identity. Instead of biological sex?
Sixty-five percent responded that they should not or would not allow it at all. When respondents were asked specifically about adult transgender female athletes competing on female sports teams, 69% disagreed.
at United Nations It said nearly 900 biological women were missing the podium because they were beaten by transgender athletes.
The findings were compiled by Reem Alsalem, UN Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, in the title “Violence against women and girls in sport–
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Barbra Banda of Zambia celebrates after scoring her team’s second goal in a penalty shootout during the Australia-New Zealand 2023 Women’s World Cup Group C match between Costa Rica and Zambia at Waikato Stadium on July 31, 2023 in Hamilton, New Zealand. (Hannah Peters/FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)
The report states that More than 600 athletes have not received a medal in more than 400 events in 29 sports, totaling more than 890 medals, as of March 30.
“Changing the women’s sports category to a mixed gender category. As a result, more and more female athletes are losing out on opportunities. Including medals when competing with men,” the report said.
Banda is one of a number of controversial cases involving athletes who have previously failed gender qualification tests at the Paris Olympics. Boxers Iman Kelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan both won gold medals in the Olympics. own competition and was allowed to compete This is despite not having passed the gender qualification test at the previous international event.
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