x x Khelif was disqualified from the 2023 world championships due to failing an unspecified gender eligibility test. Her potential participation in the Paris Olympics has sparked significant controversy. x Author JK Rowling referred to Khelif as a "male," accusing her of "enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered." x Rowling has faced backlash from human rights activists in recent years for her views on transgender issues, particularly her stance that biological sex is immutable. x On Truth Social, U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump declared, "I will keep men out of women’s sports," while his vice-presidential nominee, JD Vance, argued that "Kamala Harris’s ideas about gender" have led to "a grown man pummelling a woman in a boxing match."