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The author of “Harry Potter” JK Rowling criticized a transgender handball player who feared that they were unable to compete for a place in the Women’s Olympic team in Australia, because organic men were prohibited from participating in female sports.
Hannah Mouncey, former Australian rules of the rules, said on the “dismissed” podcast hoping to be able to compete in the women’s team at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games and the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games. But Mouncey said that it did not seem likely.
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JK Rowling arrives for the Guinness Six Nations match at the Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh. Image date: Saturday February 24, 2024. (Images Andrew Milligan / PA via Getty Images)
Rowling, which was favorable to the holding of the women’s sports fair, replied on social networks.
“Man fears that he is not allowed to deceive his way to the Olympic Games by playing against women,” wrote Rowling on X. “Man says that anti-key feeling is” armed “against men like him, who cheat. Read the most here on the reasons why the cheating man is sad and why the women he could injure does not matter.”
Mouncey rejected the idea that transgender athletes had an advantage over women.
“There is this idea that trans athletes have an unfair advantage, but the results do not show it,” said Mouncey. “I have always believed in equity and restrictions if necessary, but general prohibitions are not the answer.”
The transgender policy of the International Handball Federation entered into force in 2022.
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Hannah Mouncey de Darebin passed the ball during the VFLW Round 8 match between Williamstown and Darebin at Williamstown Football Ground on July 1, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. (Daniel Pockett / AFL Media / Getty Images)
The Policy Stated That Transgender Athletes To Competant Against Female Athletes “Must Demonstrate to the Satisfaction of the Expert Panel (On the Balance of Probabilitities), in Accord with Clause 4, that the concentration of testosterone in her serum has been less than 5 nmol/l1 continuously for a period of 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. “
In addition, the policy has declared that the athlete will need “a test result of at least 12 months but not earlier than 14 months before the first competition of the athlete, which indicates that the total level of testosterone of the transgender athlete was less than 5 Nmol / L” and “an affidavit of a medical professional indicating that the total level of testosterone of the athlete transfers 5 nmols / the competition. “
The head of the International Olympic Committee, Kirsty Coventry, said in January that there was “overwhelming support” by IOC members to protect the category of women.
Kirsty Coventry laughs at a press conference after being elected president of the IOC to the International Olympic Committee 144th Session in Costa Navarino, Greece West, Thursday March 2025. (APTO Photo / Thanassis Stavrakis)
She added that there is “unanimous” support to achieve an agreement on how to modify politics, and suggested that the IOC could draw inspiration from global athletics policy, which prevents biological men from participating in female sports if these men have crossed male puberty.
