X users back Algerian boxer’s lawsuit against JK Rowling and Elon Musk

Some social media users have thrown their weight behind Algerian boxer and newly crowned Olympic champion, Imane Khelif, after she launched a lawsuit against Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling.

Khelif accuses the two of aggravated cyberbullying.

The 25-year-old has been at the centre of an unpleasant dispute over her gender, with some claiming she is a man who shouldn’t be competing against women.

Musk and the Harry Potter author are some of those who came hard on the boxer after her Italian rival, Angela Carini, abandoned their match, 46 seconds into the rumble.

She had suffered sustained blows from the Algerian boxer who failed a gender eligibility test at the World Championships last year.

Rowling went on a ‘rant’ on X, defending Carini.

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. You’re a disgrace, your ‘safeguarding’ is a joke and #Paris24 will be forever tarnished by the brutal injustice done to Carini. https://t.co/JMKzVljpyr

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 1, 2024

Watch this (whole thread), then explain why you’re OK with a man beating a woman in public for your entertainment. This isn’t sport. From the bullying cheat in red all the way up to the organisers who allowed this to happen, this is men revelling in their power over women. https://t.co/u32FcDTy9p

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 1, 2024

Commentators pretending critics of the IOC’s reliance on documents rather than sex testing think Khelif is trans are straw-manning. I don’t claim Khelif is trans. My objection, and that of many others, is to male violence against women becoming an Olympic sport. https://t.co/DtsXy61QBR

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 7, 2024

Musk also did not hold back.

Good https://t.co/b0kOXKFE8p

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 1, 2024

Speaking in a video that has been circulating on social media, Khelif says all the comments affected her and hurt her.

IMANE KHELIF RESPONDS TO DONALD TRUMP AND ELON MUSK:

“I saw that big personalities like Donald Trump had compared me to a man and it hurt me extremely.

I didn’t understand this relentlessness and all this hatred. I was afraid but I got up again.” pic.twitter.com/WdHRNX5oKp

— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) August 14, 2024

The complaint over the slander was filed to French authorities by Khelif’s attorney, who says he hopes the prosecution investigates whoever it feels has a case two answer to over utterances made on X.

The medalist’s attorney, Nabil Boudi, says Trump could also be part of the investigation.

Khelif became Algeria’s first gold medalist in women’s boxing and that country’s first boxer, overall, to win gold since 1996.

She was one of two athletes who were cleared to compete in the women’s boxing in Paris after they were disqualified from the 2023 women’s world championships for failing to meet eligibility criteria from the now-banned International Boxing Association.

The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Mark Adams has defended the athlete’s right to compete, saying contenders like them are real people too.

Khelif’s supporters are excited over her decision to seek justice against her ‘aggressors’.

Like I told you numerous times you have to have facts to target someone specifically. And with IBA legal problems you don’t just take their word for it. Algeria doctors wouldn’t forget that because it’s against the law. So if Imane_Khelif and it comes out she is 100% Female pic.twitter.com/vOkTuwzQjc

— Gwendydd St.Clair (@Gwen6930) August 14, 2024

Wishing Imane Khelif the best in her fight against bullies who were bent on destroying her for nothing..

— Uche (@ubig1) August 13, 2024

Add Riley Gaines to the list. I bet that crybaby will cry more after this.

— God Aodh (@god_aodh) August 13, 2024

I hope Imane Khelif wins. She needs to take down that bad bodied fraud.

— Alise Kazah (@alisekazah) August 14, 2024

Imane Khelif is the hero we all need

— WolfieVision 🦒🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@ross11ross) August 14, 2024

I’d say I hope Imane Khelif ends up owning J.K. Rowling’s home after the court case but I wouldn’t wish that horrible unhealthy mould palace on anyone in the world…

Except JK Rowling.

— Mike Carter (@Thecomedycarter) August 13, 2024

i know it’s a long shot but i sincerely hope elon musk, jk rowling & logan paul are ruined by imane khelif suing them. i want those assholes to SUFFER!!!

— patback (@memeforhire) August 14, 2024