Imane Khelif Names Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling in Lawsuit
Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif has filed a cyberbullying lawsuit after false claims that she was transgender during the 2024 Paris Olympics led to widespread online harassment. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed her female identity, dismissing the accusations as baseless and linked to an arbitrary decision by the now-banned International Boxing Association (IBA). The lawsuit, filed through Paris’s national center for combating online hate, names high-profile figures Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling, who fueled the false claims on social media.
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00:00Olympic boxer Iman Khalif filed a cyberbullying lawsuit after false claims she was trans led
00:05to a wave of online hate, and there are apparently two huge celebrities named in the suit.
00:11The Algerian Olympic boxer became the target of false claims that she was transgender during
00:16the 2024 Paris Olympics.
00:18These unfounded rumors led to significant online harassment, and were linked to Khalif
00:23being disqualified from the IBA Women's World Championships last year due to high
00:27levels of testosterone.
00:28Despite these accusations, the International Olympic Committee confirmed that Khalif is
00:33female, as documented by her passport and eligibility for women's competitions.
00:38The IOC also emphasized that these attacks were based on arbitrary decisions by the IBA,
00:44which has since been banned from the Olympics.
00:46News recently broke that Khalif is filing a lawsuit through Paris' National Center
00:50for Combating Online Hate.
00:52Speaking to SNTV, Khalif explained why this is so important to her, sharing,
00:57Variety was the first to report Elon Musk and
01:10J.K.
01:11Rowling have both been named in the lawsuit, after they added fire to the waves of hate
01:14through posts made on X.