J.K. Rowling has taken to social media to criticize transgender handball player Hannah Mousey, who had many things to say about Donald Trump.
Hannah recently opened up about her fears of not being able to compete for a place on Australia’s women’s Olympic team because biological males have been banned from competing in women’s sports.
The athlete revealed on the Sacked podcast that she wanted to compete on the women’s team in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and the 2034 Brisbane Olympics. However, that won’t be possible now because of recent bans spearheaded by Donald Trump.
Hannah Mouncey, born Callum, competed for the Australian men’s handball team before transitioning in 2015 and playing for her country’s women’s team.
Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security updated visa rules to stop transgender women from traveling to the US to compete in elite sporting events.
“You’re banning someone from competing who has done nothing wrong,’ Mouncey said in an interview with Code AFL in Australia. “This is no fault of their own. People who have willingly gone out and doped are allowed to compete again in four years.”
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling responded on social media to Hannah’s revelations. The author has consistently advocated for keeping women’s sports fair.
“Man fears he won’t be allowed to cheat his way to the Olympics by playing against women,” J.K. wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “Man says anti-cheat sentiment is being ‘weaponized’ against men like him, who cheat. Read more here about why the cheating man is sad and why the women he might injure just don’t matter.”
According to Fox, the International Handball Federation’s transgender policy was enacted in 2022.
The policy was outlined that for transgender athletes to compete against female athletes, they, “must demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Expert Panel (on the balance of probabilities), in accordance with clause 4, that the concentration of testosterone in her serum has been less than 5 nmol/L1 continuously for a period of at least 12 months; and she must keep her serum testosterone concentration below 5 nmol/L for so long as she continues to compete in the female category of competition.”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February banning transgender girls and women from women’s and girls’ sports.
Trump issued an executive order on the day his second term began that called for “restoring biological truth to the federal government” and signed another titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.”
The NCAA would soon rule that only women assigned female at birth can compete in college sports. Months later, the University of Pennsylvania removed the times set by a trans swimmer.
President Donald Trump has made a ban on transgender participation in sports a central focus of his administration.
The federal government now has wide latitude across multiple agencies to penalize federally funded entities that “deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities.”
“The war on women’s sports is over,” Trump declared earlier this year.