BBC gives women's sports award to player who failed sex eligibility test, inciting J.K. Rowling's wrath

Famed Harry Potter writer J.K. Rowling delivered 1 of her emblematic sports takes Tuesday. 

The BBC awarded its yearly Women's Footballer of The Year grant to Zambian subordinate Barbra Banda. Banda withdrew from the Zambian squad for the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations successful Morocco aft failing to conscionable enactment eligibility requirements successful 2022, the BBC antecedently reported. 

Banda was allowed to vie astatine the Paris Olympics and has go the second-leading scorer successful the United States’ National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) this season, playing for the Orlando Pride. 

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J.K. Rowling speaks connected transgender radical invading women's spaces. (Getty Images)

Banda received the astir votes from BBC readers aft being shortlisted by a sheet of what the BBC said were "experts progressive successful football," including coaches, players and non-BBC journalists.

Rowling spoke retired successful a station connected X. 

"Presumably the BBC decided this was much clip businesslike than going doorway to doorway to spit straight successful women's faces," Rowling wrote. 

Rowling has been 1 of the astir vocal opponents of transgender rights and inclusion, particularly successful her location state of England. 

Transgender information successful women's sports has go an internationally debated issue, and it became 1 of the most-discussed issues of the 2024 U.S. statesmanlike election. 

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Some connected the near person called for an extremity to transgender inclusion efforts. (Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)

In June, a survey conducted by NORC astatine the University of Chicago asked respondents to measurement successful connected whether transgender athletes of some sexes should beryllium permitted to enactment successful sports leagues that correspond to their preferred sex individuality alternatively of their biologic sex.

Sixty-five percent answered that it should either ne'er beryllium oregon seldom allowed. When those polled were asked specifically astir big transgender pistillate athletes competing connected women’s sports teams, 69% opposed it.

The United Nations says astir 900 biologic females person fallen abbreviated of the podium due to the fact that they were beaten retired by trans athletes.

The findings were compiled by Reem Alsalem, the UN's Rapporteur connected Violence Against Women, titled "Violence against women and girls successful sports." 

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Barbra Banda of Zambia celebrates aft scoring her team's 2nd extremity with a punishment changeable during the FIFA Women's World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 Group C lucifer betwixt Costa Rica and Zambia astatine Waikato Stadium July 31, 2023, successful Hamilton, New Zealand.  (Hannah Peters/FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)

The study said much than 600 athletes did not medal successful much than 400 competitions successful 29 antithetic sports, totaling implicit 890 medals, according to accusation arsenic of March 30.

"The replacement of the pistillate sports class with a mixed-sex class has resulted successful an expanding fig of pistillate athletes losing opportunities, including medals, erstwhile competing against males," the study said.

Banda was among the arguable cases involving athletes who antecedently failed enactment eligibility tests astatine the Paris Olympics. Boxers Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan each won golden medals successful their respective competitions and were allowed to vie contempt failing enactment eligibility tests astatine erstwhile planetary events. 

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