Trump order protecting women's sports draws support from liberals, prominent trans-identified figure

3. J.K. Rowling 

The Harry Potter author, who compared Trump to the villain of her renowned fantasy series in 2015, shared a photo last week of the president surrounded by female athletes as he signed the executive order. 

In the X post, Rowling sarcastically thanked individuals on the left "campaigning to destroy women's and girls' rights" for the image.

In a follow-up post, the author asserted that gender ideology "has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity." She accused the ideology of inflicting "irreparable physical damage" upon vulnerable children. 

"Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it has been imposed, top down, by politicians, healthcare bodies, academia, sections of the media, celebrities and even the police," Rowling stated.

The fantasy author has consistently received pushback from trans activists after she defended Maya Forstater in 2019, a tax researcher who lost her job for stating the fact that men identifying as female are not women.

"I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode 'woman' as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it," Rowling later wrote in a 2020 essay.