J.K. Rowling is going to bat for Riley Gaines.
Gaines dominated headlines this week after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez personally attacked the OutKick host on social media by mocking her collegiate athletic accomplishments.
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It all started when Gaines posted a photo of AOC, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernie Sanders during a recent campaign event and captioned it, « We are being destroyed from within. »
AOC clapped back by referencing Gaines’ fifth-place tie to trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championship.
« Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn’t have come in fifth, » AOC wrote on X.
Since then, it seems all of social media has weighed in — from far-left podcaster Jennifer Welch to Congresswoman Nancy Mace and now, even J.K. Rowling.
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The « Harry Potter » author responded to an X user named Alex Cole, who accused Gaines of piggybacking off trans athletes for fame.
« If you took every trans athlete out of sports, no one would have heard of Riley Gaines, » he wrote. « She owes her livelihood to trans athletes. »
Rowling responded: « .@Riley_Gaines_ doesn’t defend women’s rights for attention or money, any more than I do. We fight because it’s the only thing to do if you’re not a coward, a pick me or a living doormat. »
Gaines, too, responded to the post, saying, « Moral conviction is a foreign concept to some. »
Both Rowling and Riley know a thing or two about taking on the mob. And both refuse to back down to them.
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