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J.K. Rowling Savages John Oliver Over His Support For Trans Athletes In Women’s Sports: “An Intelligent Person Spouts Absolute Bullsh*t”


In a lengthy X post, J.K. Rowling accused John Oliver of wanting female athletes to suffer to support an "elitist ideology" over transgender rights.

The Harry Potter author accused the host of HBO ‘s Last Week Tonight of being happy to see women suffer sporting humiliation in support of an “elitist post-modern ideology.” She argued Oliver was “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.” “They’ll stare unabashedly into a camera and insist that their audiences’ eyeballs are incapable of seeing what’s plain as day, and that there’s something wrong with the great unwashed for believing that girls are being robbed of opportunities and put at physical risk.”

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