J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk Named in Cyberbullying Lawsuit Filed by Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif After Olympic Win

(EXCLUSIVE)


J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk have both been named in a criminal complaint filed to French authorities over alleged “acts of aggravated cyber harassment” against Algerian boxer and newl crowned Olympic champion Imane Khelif.

Nabil Boudi, the Paris-based attorney of Khelif, confirmed to Variety that both figures were mentioned in the body of the complaint, posted to the anti-online hatred center of the Paris public prosecutor’s office on Friday.

The lawsuit was filed against X, which under French law means that it was filed against unknown persons. That “ensure[s] that the ‘prosecution has all the latitude to be able to investigate against all people,” including those who may have written hateful messages under pseudonyms, said Boudi. The complaint nevertheless mentions famously controversial figures.

“J. K. Rowling and Elon Musk are named in the lawsuit, among others,” he said, adding that Donald Trump would be part of the investigation. “Trump tweeted, so whether or not he is named in our lawsuit, he will inevitably be looked into as part of the prosecution.”

Khelif — who on Saturday won the Olympic gold medal in the women’s 66 kilogram boxing competition — spent much of the 2024 Olympics in Paris at the center of a noisy and unpleasant dispute about her gender eligibility that reverberated around the world. Despite being born female and not identifying as transgender or intersex — and being backed by the International Olympic Committee, who asserted “scientifically, this is not a man fighting a woman” — Khelif faced a torrent of accusations and abuse over her gender.

Most of the attacks came via social media, particularly on X/Twitter, and the controversy was escalated when high-profile figures stepped into the fray. In one message to her 14.2 million followers, Rowling posted a picture from Khelif’s fight with Italian boxer Angela Carini, accusing the former of being a man who was “enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head.” Musk, meanwhile, shared a post from swimmer Riley Gaines that claimed “men don’t belong in women’s sports.” The X owner co-signed the message by writing: “Absolutely.” Trump posted a message with a picture from the fight with Carina accompanied by the message: “I will keep men out of women’s sports!”

Boudi said that although the complaint mentions names, “What we’re asking is that the prosecution investigates not only these people but whoever it feels necessary. If the case goes to court, they will stand trial.”

Boudi also claimed that while the lawsuit was filed in France, “it could target personalities overseas,” pointing out that “the prosecutor’s office for combating online hate speech has the possibility to make requests for mutual legal assistance with other countries.” He added that there were agreements with the U.S. equivalent of the French office for combating online hate speech.

Logan Paul was also among those who attacked Khelif on social media, posting on X following her win against Carini: “This is the purest form of evil unfolding right before our eyes. A man was allowed to beat up a woman on a global stage, crushing her life’s dream while fighting for her deceased father. This delusion must end.”

Paul later deleted the post and admitted that he “might be guilty of spreading misinformation.”

But for Bouli, such apologies — including those that Khelif has received personally from prominent figures who tweeted derogatory comments — wouldn’t change anything regarding the investigation. “The lawsuit is filed and the facts remain,” he said.

As for X, Boudi said the complaint is aimed at the authors of social media posts and not the platforms themselves. “It’s the responsibility of lawmakers to issue sanctions to platforms, not ours,” he said. But he did note that cyber harassment cases were now being taken much more seriously by judicial authorities and that, in some cases, “there are prison sentences.”

Khelif’s coach, Pedro Diaz, told Variety that the bullying Khelif endured during her run in the Olympics “incredibly affected her” and “everyone around her.”

“The first time she fought in the Olympics, there was this crazy storm outside of the ring,” said Diaz, who runs Miami-based Mundo Boxing Gym and started training with Khelif in February 2023. “I had never seen anything so disgusting in my life,” added the coach, who has participated in the training of 21 Olympic champions prior to the Algerian boxer. Diaz said he asked Khelif to refrain from looking at social media so she “wouldn’t lose her focus on winning the gold medal.”

“She’s so smart and has such an amazing motivation,” he said, adding that her gold medal win “felt like the most rewarding victory of my career as a coach.”


https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/jk-rowling-elon-musk-imane-khelif-lawsuit-12361...

freediver wrote on Aug 14^th, 2024 at 7:25pm:



You could have simply googled it but i'll indulge you. Not that i think for a second you will watch this:

freediver wrote on Aug 14^th, 2024 at 7:25pm:


It has XY chromosomes = a man.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/imane-khelif-olympics-boxer-tran...

While little is known about Khelif’s medical history, the International Boxing Association’s (IBA) president had previously claimed a test had shown she had XY chromosomes [male] and therefore did not meet their eligibility criteria.

Armchair_Politician wrote on Aug 14^th, 2024 at 9:32pm:



No. The IBA has been most contradictory in telling us precisely what test they are talking about. They cannot get their story straight. They are a Russian organisation who only lodged their "concerns" after the Russian contender was beaten. What's more, they have been utterly rejected by the IOC and they have been unconditionally cut adrift.

Imane was born a woman, has lived her life as a woman and passed all IOC criteria. This is nothing short of a vicious witch hunt that has been fuelled by the trans debate and all it's angry little minions.

ANd they are in a very serious sense not only messing with in a reputational sense. If she is thought to be trans in Algeria where even homosexuality is a crime, then her very life could be in danger.

You think the howling masses care? Of course not. No more than they needed actual facts to launch their viscous campaign against her.

freediver wrote on Aug 14^th, 2024 at 7:25pm:


No tits, no arse, raised as a girl, born with no dick, doesn't walk like a girl, sits like a bloke (as someone pointed out - NO Muslim woman would sit like that - or a non-Muslim for that matter - legs together girls) ..... arbitrary assignment of gender gone totally wrong... (heh, heh, heh).... this is as bad as the original attempt to turn a boy into a girl because of an accident.... don't marry your cousins, they say .....

Full test or no competition.... the IOC has to straighten up its act - if this person passes a proper test - all well and good... if not - outski!  They are just playing a game here - like kids and politicians - which they are in essence - they are trying to put a fast one over and see how far they can get with it.... college pranksterism at its very lowest.

Did you know that those blokes dressing up as women and demanding to be called 'ma'am' started off as a college prank using big beefy football players?  Haven't you worked that out yet?  Now it's become a disease of the mind for every borderliner ready to leap over the edge....

I identify as a Labrador in front of the fire in winter...         

Weren't the same bigoted posters (Hi Crappler) that are now crying about her as a female boxer, the same ones arguing not so long ago that if you were born with a vagina you are a woman, no if's or but's??

The only consistency from the bigots is that they are consistantly inconsistant.

this person has an xy chromosome

the y chromosome codes for increased testosterone resulting in a punching strength about 2.5 times stronger then an xx individual

lia thomas in the pool is not inflicting damage on swimmers in other lanes (not physical damage)

this xy chromosome equipped individual was belting an xx chromosome individual in the face

the fact mothra supports this is very revealing of how much she cares about violence against females

she is in fact, a supporter of violence against women

we knew this because she supports the muslim practice of removing the clitorises of 90 % of somali teenage girls

with friends like mothra, the female of the species must rely on the strong competant rational support of the noble female such as the fearless JK Rowling

what a star JK is for calling out these disgusting treachorous hateful fake feminists such as mothra 

https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/tyson-offers-to-fight-olympics-trans-boxing-winner-gi...





Fact checked by The People's Voice Community
August 2, 2024

The women’s boxing match at the Paris Olympics has triggered international outrage and raised more questions about the fairness of letting “biological males” compete against females.

Italy’s Angela Carini faced off against Algeria’s Imani Khelif on Thursday, in the welterweight (66kg) category, but lasted only 46 seconds. Khelif was disqualified from last year’s World Championships after being deemed biologically male.

After taking two hefty punches to the face, Carini was forced to withdraw from the contest. She threw down her helmet crying “this is unjust!”

She has since received an outpouring of solidarity from critics of transgenderism around the world, who denounced Khelif as a biological man and protested the bout as unfair.

Among those who slammed the situation were a UN women’s welfare official and Italy’s Prime Minister.

Author J.K. Rowling told the International Olympic Committee (IOC): “A young female boxer has just had everything she’s worked and trained for snatched away because you allowed a male to get in the ring with her” She adding that the 2024 Olympics “will be forever tarnished by the brutal injustice done to Carini.”

I remember in high school biology they taught us about a dozen different definitions of male and female, and the challenges to each. Nothing is ever clean cut in biology.

My take on it is to go back to the purpose of having a different competition for men and women. It is not to celebrate gender diversity. It is because women are weaker and need their own separate competition, or they would rarely make it in. It would be a sadder world if the only people who got around in tights were men. The only reason we have this controversy is because people are too afraid of upsetting the gender diversity Nazis or upsetting the gender equality Nazis by acknowledging the elephant in the room - that women aren't as good at sport.

If you remember that, the solution seems obvious - any gender ambiguity should should force the participant to compete in the men's competition. If it makes you feel better, you could relabel the men's competition to the open or unrestricted competition. Then the women's competition is to be restricted to people who satisfy every available definition of female.

Even for performance enhancing drugs things are getting very tricky, because it is getting easier to make drugs that resemble very closely what occurs naturally in the body, which is highly variable.

tickleandrose wrote on Aug 15^th, 2024 at 4:52pm:



she has a Y chromosome

this is not in dispute

she has extra testosterone as  a result and can pummel the face of a female opponent

mothra gets off on this

its sick

here we have foxes opponent with a fractured skull

John Smith wrote on Aug 15^th, 2024 at 5:47pm:


Do try to keep up John.

John Smith wrote on Aug 15^th, 2024 at 6:32pm:


The purpose for separate comps was to limit damage. It was never a part of the Olympics for them to be merged, therefore there was no need to separate them. Wiser heads prevailed at the time, they could probably foresee future problems, unlike the current IOC.

The fact that you are trying to read more into the statement that was said, is telling.

aquascoot wrote on Aug 15^th, 2024 at 5:48pm:



Mothra gets her rocks off on victim stories but
who is the victim in this one? -

is it the poor man who wants to be a woman and gets picked on by the media or
is it the poor woman who got beaten up by a bloke pretending to be a girl?

Are they both victims?

Can Tammy Tyson sort it out?

lee wrote on Aug 15^th, 2024 at 6:42pm:



When did the current IOC merge mens and womens boxing?
Are you and FD overdosing on the same idiocy pills?

I wonder when there will be a lawsuit against “acts of aggravated harassment” by French Olympic organizers  of heterosexual and religious people during opening ceremony?

aquascoot wrote on Aug 15^th, 2024 at 5:48pm:


Some girls are born with XY.   In those cases, they would have a vagina, fallopian tube, and ovaries.   They are probably not fertile.  But. because of these, they are raised as female.  And in biblical sense, they are born with physical bodies of female.  It is only with advancement of science, that we find out that some of those girls indeed have a Y chromosome.   How do we know, if every other female athletes ever in the history of Olympics have similar conditions?  Do we then, in all fairness, subject all female athletes ever competed, even if they are completely physically female on the outside, to undergo a gene test?   And then if they tested +ve, we strip them of their gold and records?

tickleandrose wrote on Aug 16^th, 2024 at 12:47pm:



Oh really - how do we know that Imane Khelif hasn't got a big banana down there?  -
has anyone had a look?   

John Smith wrote on Aug 16^th, 2024 at 1:33pm:


So that should be easy for you to prove.

lee wrote on Aug 16^th, 2024 at 1:58pm:


Very easy

lee wrote on Aug 15^th, 2024 at 6:42pm:

lee wrote on Aug 16^th, 2024 at 3:18pm:



Every Olympic committee based their 'inclusivity' on passports and birth certificates you moron. The current IOC are doing exactly what the previous IOC's did.

The only thing that changed was the concocted outrage by the retarded right. That has nothing to do with the IOC, past or present.

lee wrote on Aug 16^th, 2024 at 3:30pm:



so now your upset that they did the same as every other IOC?

lee wrote on Aug 16^th, 2024 at 3:30pm:


I refute that you've got a brain.

John Smith wrote on Aug 16^th, 2024 at 3:36pm:



Only in the dimwitted world of Guido is there no change.

tickleandrose wrote on Aug 16^th, 2024 at 2:30pm:


By unfriendly do you mean they execute poofters who dress up as women?

Khelif sounds like these Palestinians who were born and raised as female despite being male.
The Doctor will explain why


Boxing rules were changed a couple of years ago to define woman as XX chromosome.
A Gold in Olympic boxing leads to a professional career this will not happen with Khelif he will have to box against men he has XY chromosomes.

XX produce eggs, XY produce sperm the science deniers should go back to school.

Is he one of these?

Baronvonrort wrote on Aug 16^th, 2024 at 4:42pm:


It is hard to say, since I dont have any more details about her condition. 

Lets play a mind game.   Lets just say, there is this person - say Person A, who was born with female genitalia in a MAGA community inside the bible belt in USA.  Person A will be given a female name, and raised as a female.  Now... you an outsider, suddenly came, and claim that through science, she should be a man rather than a woman.    Those community will think that you are trying to 'convert' a biological female (that they know) into a trans man.    They will claim that you are a charlatan, and that your science is rubbish.  Get out of our town.   

Grappler Racist Filth wrote on Aug 16^th, 2024 at 5:50pm:


well according to the very conservative news.com.au she is a female, with female parts.  And that this is not a transgender issue.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/olympics/childhood-photos-of-boxer-at-centre-of-olympic-gender-scandal-emerge/news-story/8b1333a63fe99550d39b3d5448dfcd99

Yes, it is rare.   As to if they should become a man or woman.  Well... if they are born with female bits... how are you going to ... I dont know add it to make her a man?   

The most likely biological situation with Imane Khelif is that he/she/it/they/thur/them has the external genitals of a female and the internal, testosterone producing testes of a man.

This very rare biological situation should not preclude Imane Khelif from being a happy healthy person who can go about their life free to do whatever they want, apart from competing in sport against 'standard' biological females. While Imane Khelif may not feel that's fair and the rest of the 0.018% of the population with DSD may not feel that's fair, it's actually very fair of 'standard' biological women who've devoted their whole life to a sport.

The little girl on the right.

lee wrote on Aug 16^th, 2024 at 3:30pm:



Quote:


The last Olympics was 2020. That was before DNA testing ? Not sure it is a good idea to call someone a dumbass when you say something like this.

lee wrote on Aug 16^th, 2024 at 5:38pm:



We were discussing the IOC's rules regarding gender, not the IBA's rules. The rules did not change, only the body that determined the result of the rules. The IOC's rules were ALWAYS to use the gender specified on birth certificates or passports to determine the applicants gender. The IOC's RULES have not changed.

freediver wrote on Aug 17^th, 2024 at 10:23am:


Don't cry fd. It's unbecoming

John Smith wrote on Aug 17^th, 2024 at 9:30am:


As the authorised holder of the Boxing it was the IBA's remit.

lee wrote on Aug 17^th, 2024 at 12:53pm:


And yet it was YOU who pretended that the current IOC changed the rules

John Smith wrote on Aug 17^th, 2024 at 12:57pm:


They did, from the IBA's rules. From DNA to Passports.

Do try to keep up.

aquascoot wrote on Aug 17^th, 2024 at 2:10pm:



Smith was the school dunce -

he was kicked out of school at the age of 15.   

aquascoot wrote on Aug 17^th, 2024 at 2:10pm:


Funny you say that when he is correct on this one? The AOC is using the same criteria it has used for decades without change.

Dnarever wrote on Aug 17^th, 2024 at 11:30pm:


AOC?

Okay, the basic principal for banning the Algerian Boxer is that, with XY chromosome, she may have intra abdominal testis, which produces testosterone, which give her an unfair advantage in woman's sports.   We can agree to disagree on this regard. 

But why stop here.  What if... its a XX woman, who has a slow growing testosterone producing tumor that remained un-diagnosed, perhaps due to lack of health care in some areas of the world.  One would argue, that those XX women also has an unfair advantage against those who dont have the tumor.   Is this means, that in the future, in women sport, there are going to be discrimination against those with diseases as well, if that disease grants an unfair advantage?

lee wrote on Aug 18^th, 2024 at 1:17pm:



There are tumors that occur in XX genetic females that produces male androgen or both.   So, its like instead of injecting testosterone... some tissues in their body mutates and start to produce male sex hormone. 

tickleandrose wrote on Aug 18^th, 2024 at 1:26pm:



And the international bodies should be able to tell whether that particular discipline would be impacted.

Thank you everyone.  So Gordon here believes that Yes, IK has a rare medical condition that gives he/she/it/they/them/thur an unfair advantage.  While Lee is ambivalent, leaving it to the bodies that governed the sports. 

Okay, lets not concentrate on rare disease, like ovarian / germ cell tumour.  What about conditions that are more common?    Lets take for example polycystic ovarian syndrome.  The prevalence of PCOS is about 10%, give or take which study you based your figure from.  So it is fairly common. 

I can go on and on about pathogenesis of PCOS for many hours.  But in short, it is caused by imbalance of hormones produced by the ovaries, that then caused increased levels of other hormones, which can include: insulin like growth hormone, and male type androgens.   The symptoms of PCOS can include: excessive hair (female beard), acne, menstruation irregularities and infertility. 

Studies have found that women with PCOS are over represented in elite sports.  As the milder form of PCOS enable these female athletes to have higher muscle mass and increased bone mass than those without. 

So my question is then... where do we draw the line?  Should we then start to discriminate against those with naturally occurring diseases that gives an advantage in sports.  And at what level of sports should we start to restrict - e.g. local club level, state level, or international competitions only.

Mothra,
Quote:


They were wrong -
it has XY chromosomes which equals a man.

mothra wrote on Aug 19^th, 2024 at 6:57am:



I dunno - I read it somewhere - it's easy to test for that -
even covertly - we leave our DNA everywhere we go.

mothra wrote on Aug 19^th, 2024 at 7:00am:



Nah - probably has a big banana down there too.    

John Smith wrote on Aug 19^th, 2024 at 7:13am:



They just know they don't like it.

freediver wrote on Aug 19^th, 2024 at 7:33am:


Nothing. You?

freediver wrote on Aug 19^th, 2024 at 7:44am:


God you're boring.

mothra wrote on Aug 19^th, 2024 at 7:47am:


I am just curious to know when you consider the gender "declared" at birth to be the final arbiter?

freediver wrote on Aug 19^th, 2024 at 7:51am:



Well you could have tried asking me that question then, couldn't you.

mothra wrote on Aug 19^th, 2024 at 7:52am:


I did. So you wouldn't dare say anything like "she is a she, she was declared female at birth and has lived her entire life as a female"?

freediver wrote on Aug 19^th, 2024 at 7:55am:



No. You didn't.

Would you like to ask me?

Bobby. wrote on Aug 19^th, 2024 at 7:59am:


Only if they don;t have an unfair advantage.

mothra wrote on Aug 19^th, 2024 at 7:57am:


I am sorry you are in such a bad mood Mothra. Perhaps you can rephrase the question yourself into a form that you might deign to answer?

mothra wrote on Aug 19^th, 2024 at 8:05am:



You tell me and don't call me puerile names - you silly old hag.