J.K. Rowling thanks 'left' after Trump signs executive order banning men from women’s sports

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Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has mocked the left after U.S. President Donald Trump signed the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order on Wednesday.

The signing took place on National Girls and Women in Sports Day and viral video and photos from the day showed Trump sitting at a desk surrounded by dozens of girls and women before he held up the paper with his signature to applause and cheers.

Rowling’s X post included a photo from the day, which she captioned acknowledging those who had fought to allow biological males to compete in women’s sports.

“Congratulations to every single person on the left who’s been campaigning to destroy women’s and girls’ rights,” the author wrote on X.

“Without you, there’d be no images like this.”

In a lengthy follow-up post, Rowling fired back at her critics, saying that the “Why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?” line has always been “utterly ridiculous.”

She continued: “Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women’s and girls’ safety, privacy and dignity. It’s also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids.”

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Rowling noted that while “some very vulnerable people have been harmed” throughout all gender identity ideology, “this was never about a so-called vulnerable minority” and that those who benefited most were men — “both trans-identified and not.”

She added: “The actual victims in this mess have been women and children, especially the most vulnerable, gay people who’ve resisted the movement and paid a horrible price, and regular people working in environments where one misplaced pronoun could see you vilified or constructively dismissed.”

Rowling has long been an outspoken advocate for women’s rights, not shying away from sharing her thoughts on gender and more than happy to clap back at critics.

“Do not tell me this is about a tiny minority,” she declared to her haters. “This movement has impacted society in disastrous ways, and if you had any sense, you’d be quietly deleting every trace of activist mantras, ad hominem attacks, false equivalence and circular arguments from your X feeds, because the day is fast approaching when you’ll want to pretend you always saw through the craziness and never believed it for a second.”

The author added in another comment: “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the demonization by trans activists of gay adults fighting to halt the medicalization and castration of gay kids has been appalling. I’ll always have your back, as you’ve had mine.”