Taipei, Aug. 19 (CNA) Taiwanese Olympic gold medalist Lin Yu-ting (林郁婷) countered false accusations about her gender status made by Trump and J. K. Rowling on Sunday with good-humored indifference.
When asked by reporters to comment on disparaging remarks former U.S. President Donald Trump had made about her on Saturday, Lin described Taiwan as a "friendly" place that can accept different opinions.
"This is a friendly society, we are able to tolerate different voices," the 28-year-old athlete said at a promotional event in Taipei. "Each of us can have a different appearance, so of course we can also have different voices."
At a political rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, Trump had falsely suggested that Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif had been "men," according to the Associated Press.
"They transitioned to women, and they were in the boxing," the former U.S. president said, despite the fact that neither Lin nor Khelif are transgender and both have identified as female since birth.
Lin, who won the women's 57-kilogram division boxing contest at the recently-concluded Paris Olympics, told reporters that she had not read news reports about Trump's remarks, so was unable to give any specific response.
At a separate publicity event in New Taipei earlier on Sunday, Lin was also asked by reporters for her views on recent comments made by British fiction writer J. K. Rowling.
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