Not a surprise, a trans-identified male will compete at the Paris Paralympics.
Petrillo (last name) has Stargardt disease, a retinal degeneration. He will compete in women’s T12 200m and 400m.
As often happens in similar cases, he has not won anything in men's competitions.
International Paralympic Committee (IPC) having same eye condition as Petrillo - - I suppose - - have similar stand as IOC. For IPC, as long as person legal papers says is woman, so be it.
Petrillo had been compiting as male at international or local ones (identification papers and no "sexual reasigment") in the last recent years.
They can stop competing but, until they realize that all medals and dreams are and will be taken away from them, they can make other decisions.
Marvelous . He was treated like a queen, which is why he feel so empowered to inflate his victim game, something that the authorities are fascinated by it. And thus serves as a parameter for their public policies against women.
Petrillo (last name) has Stargardt disease, a retinal degeneration. He will compete in women’s T12 200m and 400m.
As often happens in similar cases, he has not won anything in men's competitions.
International Paralympic Committee (IPC) having same eye condition as Petrillo - - I suppose - - have similar stand as IOC. For IPC, as long as person legal papers says is woman, so be it.
Petrillo had been compiting as male at international or local ones (identification papers and no "sexual reasigment") in the last recent years.
They can stop competing but, until they realize that all medals and dreams are and will be taken away from them, they can make other decisions.
Mariuccia Quilleri, an athlete and lawyer who has represented several female athletes who oppose Petrillo’s participation in women’s races, told the BBC that inclusion had been chosen over fairness and “there is not much more we can do.”
Marvelous . He was treated like a queen, which is why he feel so empowered to inflate his victim game, something that the authorities are fascinated by it. And thus serves as a parameter for their public policies against women.
Leading up to the race, women’s rights advocacy group RadFem Italia contacted government officials to ensure that Petrillo would not be granted access to the women’s locker rooms. In response, Petrillo was provided with a designated changing room specifically for him at the race grounds.
...Petrillo soon after lashed out in a Facebook post wherein he equated criticism of his presence in women’s sports to Nazism, telling detractors they were “on the same level as Hitler” and comparing sex-based sports categories to a 1936 ban on Jewish athletes.
Gruppo Trans lobbies for males to be allowed to compete in women’s sports and frequently employs Petrillo as a representative. He has spoken for Gruppo Trans on several occasions, and the organization is backing a documentary film about Petrillo’s life called “5 Nanomoles – The Olympic Dream of a Trans Woman.” The title is a reference to the maximum testosterone limit set by World Athletics in 2019 for trans-identifying males in order for them to be eligible to compete against women.