J.Ok. Rowling tore aside HBO’s John Oliver over his latest monologue about transgender athletes.
The “Harry Potter” creator responded to the “Last Week Tonight” host’s latest tirade in opposition to these opposing trans inclusion in ladies’s sports activities. Throughout his remarks, he claimed there was no proof organic male trans athletes have a bonus over organic females.
“The Harris campaign failed to formulate a response, especially when it’s pretty easy to do,” Oliver mentioned Friday. “There are vanishingly few trans girls competing in high schools anywhere, even if there were more, trans kids like all kids vary in terms of athletic ability, and there is no evidence they pose any threat to safety or fairness.”
Rowling described the rant for instance of “motivated reasoning and confirmation bias.”
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J. Ok. Rowling took intention at a latest viral monologue by HBO host John Oliver. (Andrew Milligan/PA Photos through Getty Photos)
“Nothing about this feels good, because John Oliver generously gave his time for my charity Lumos and I liked him very much when I met him, but God knows, if you ever need an example of motivated reasoning and confirmation bias, this video’s for you. An undoubtedly intelligent person spouts absolute bulls— to support something he wants to be true, but isn’t,” Rowling wrote on social media Sunday.
She cited a United Nations report from final month that greater than 600 organic females didn’t medal in additional than 400 competitions in 29 completely different sports activities on account of trans inclusion, totaling over 890 medals.
Rowling additionally referenced college scholar Payton McNabb, who suffered a concussion after getting spiked by a trans participant throughout a highschool volleyball recreation.
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Rowling has often spoken out in protection of women-only areas. (Getty Photos)
“Again and again I’ve come up against men who argue exactly what Oliver does here, using the very same talking points. With a straight face, the ‘believe the science’ guys will say ‘actually, we don’t yet have enough data to say whether men and boys are stronger and faster than women and girls’. The ‘be kind’ crew can’t see what the issue is. ‘Why are you bothered, it only affects a tiny minority of females?'” she wrote.
She lambasted Oliver as one of many elites who to “prove to their progressive credentials” will “stare unabashedly into a camera and insist that their audiences’ eyeballs are incapable of seeing what’s plain as day.”
“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,” Rowling mentioned.
Rowling attacked HBO host John Oliver as an elite denying organic information. (Picture by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Photos | Picture by Gilbert Flores/Selection through Getty Photos)
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HBO host Invoice Maher additionally just lately attacked Democrats who defended concepts trans athletes in women’ sports activities up till the election.
“Talk about doubling down on what got you f—ed in the first place,” Maher mentioned. “Even the one concession I’ve heard a few people on the losing side offer that liberals should stop saying that Trump voters are stupid comes with a kind of unspoken parentheses ‘We know they are stupid, just don’t say it.’ I got bad news for you. They don’t have a monopoly on stupid.”
