JK Rowling pushes back on John Oliver's claim there's 'no evidence' trans athletes threaten girls

J.K. Rowling tore apart HBO’s John Oliver implicit his caller monologue astir transgender athletes.

The "Harry Potter" writer responded to the "Last Week Tonight" host’s caller tirade against those opposing trans inclusion successful women’s sports. During his remarks, helium claimed determination was nary grounds biologic antheral trans athletes person an vantage implicit biologic females.

"The Harris run failed to formulate a response, particularly erstwhile it's beauteous casual to do," Oliver said Friday. "There are vanishingly fewer trans girls competing successful precocious schools anywhere, adjacent if determination were more, trans kids similar each kids alteration successful presumption of diversion ability, and determination is nary grounds they airs immoderate menace to information oregon fairness."

Rowling described the rant arsenic an illustration of "motivated reasoning and confirmation bias."

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J. K. Rowling took purpose astatine a caller viral monologue by HBO big John Oliver. (Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images)

"Nothing astir this feels good, due to the fact that John Oliver generously gave his clip for my foundation Lumos and I liked him precise overmuch erstwhile I met him, but God knows, if you ever request an illustration of motivated reasoning and confirmation bias, this video's for you. An undoubtedly intelligent idiosyncratic spouts implicit bulls--- to enactment thing helium wants to beryllium true, but isn't," Rowling wrote connected societal media Sunday.

She cited a United Nations report from past period that much than 600 biologic females did not medal successful much than 400 competitions successful 29 antithetic sports owed to trans inclusion, totaling implicit 890 medals. 

Rowling besides referenced university pupil Payton McNabb, who suffered a concussion aft getting spiked by a trans subordinate during a precocious schoolhouse volleyball game.

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Rowling has often spoken retired successful defence of women-only spaces. (Getty Images)

"Again and again I've travel up against men who reason precisely what Oliver does here, utilizing the precise aforesaid talking points. With a consecutive face, the 'believe the science' guys volition accidental 'actually, we don't yet person capable information to accidental whether men and boys are stronger and faster than women and girls'. The 'be kind' unit can't spot what the contented is. 'Why are you bothered, it lone affects a tiny number of females?'" she wrote.

She lambasted Oliver arsenic 1 of the elites who to "prove to their progressive credentials" volition "stare unabashedly into a camera and importune that their audiences' eyeballs are incapable of seeing what's plain arsenic day."

"If you privation to archer the satellite you're blessed to ticker females endure injury, humiliation and the nonaccomplishment of sporting opportunities to bolster an elitist post-modern ideology embraced by a infinitesimal fraction of the world's population, just enough; you're allowed your opinion. But if you've conscionable told girls they don't merit just sport, possibly rethink utilizing each excessively existent and communal intersexual predation against young women arsenic a punchline for your 'edgy' closing joke," Rowling said.

Rowling attacked HBO big John Oliver arsenic an elite denying biologic facts. (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images | Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)

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HBO big Bill Maher besides precocious attacked Democrats who defended ideas trans athletes successful girls’ sports up until the election.

"Talk astir doubling down connected what got you f---ed successful the archetypal place," Maher said. "Even the 1 concession I've heard a fewer radical connected the losing broadside connection that liberals should halt saying that Trump voters are anserine comes with a benignant of unspoken parentheses 'We cognize they are stupid, conscionable don't accidental it.' I got atrocious quality for you. They don't person a monopoly connected stupid."