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JK Rowling will bat for Riley Gaines.
Gaines dominated the headlines this week after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez He personally attacked the OutKick host on social media by mocking her college 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 in front of the Sumner County Administration Building in Gallatin, Tennessee, on September 14, 2025. (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 City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, and Senator Bernie Sanders during a recent campaign event and captioned it: “We are being destroyed from within.”
AOC responded by referencing Gaines’ fifth-place tie with trans-identified men’s swimmer Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships.
“Maybe if you had channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn’t have made it to fifth place,” AOC wrote on X.
Since then, it seems like every social media outlet has weighed in, from far-left podcaster Jennifer Welch to Congresswoman Nancy Mace and now, even JK Rowling.
Riley Gaines challenged AOC to debate socialism, capitalism, God, abortion and more. (Iván Apfel/Getty Images)
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The “Harry Potter” author responded to an X user named Alex Cole, who accused Gaines of taking advantage of trans athletes to gain fame.
“If you took all trans athletes 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 you can 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.”
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) prepares to speak during a rally calling for immigration provisions to be included in the Build Back Better Act in front of the US Capitol on 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 give in to them.
