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JK Rowling to strike 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 achievements.
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(Left) JK Rowling attends the world premiere of “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” at the Royal Festival Hall in London, England, on March 29, 2022. (Right) Riley Gaines speaks at a vigil held for Charlie Kirk outside the Sumner County Administrative Building in Gallatin, Tennessee, on September 20, 2020. (Mike Marsland/WireImage; Alan Poizner/For The Tennessean/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
It all started when Gaines posted a photo of AOC, New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Senator Bernie Sanders at a recent campaign event and captioned it: “We are being destroyed from within.”
The AOC hit back by relegating Gaines’ fifth-place finish to trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championship.
“If you channeled all this anger into swimming faster, you might not have finished fifth,” AOC wrote on X.
Since then, it seems all social media has weighed in — from far-left podcaster Jennifer Welch to Congresswoman Nancy Mace and now even JK Rowling.
Riley Gaines challenged the AOC to debate socialism, capitalism, God, abortion and more. ((Photo by Ivan Apfel/Getty Images))
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The “Harry Potter” author responded to an X user named Alex Cole, who accused Gaines of piggybacking 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 stand up for 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 also responded to the post, saying, “Moral conviction is a foreign concept to some.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) prepares to speak during a rally for immigration provisions to be included in the Build Back Better Act outside the US Capitol December 7, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Both Rowling and Riley know a thing or two about taking on the mob. And both refuse to return to them.
