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Valentina Petrillo shouldn't be allowed to compete in the women's race

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AhBiscuits · 07/09/2024 15:19

Valentina Petrillo only started transitioning 5 years ago and previously competed as a man. How can that be fair? I appreciate that she did not make the final, but she's taken the place of a woman who has worked her arse off, but couldn't surpass Valentina's natural advantage.

Valentina Petrillo shouldn't be allowed to compete in the women's race
Valentina Petrillo shouldn't be allowed to compete in the women's race
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Thedogscollar · 07/09/2024 22:31

Another bloody cheating man performing on the world stage as a woman with his male genitals bulging in his lycra for all to see.

The IOC full of men make these rules seeing them as inclusive and progressive. They are infact excluding real women and hindering a real woman's progress.
The IOC are full of shit.

timenowplease · 07/09/2024 22:04

I'm just sad big sporting companies like Nike and Adidas haven't got it together to design proper clothing for transwomen.

She must feel really self conscious with her penis on display like that. It must really detract from her performance.

Despite that, she is very demure.

UtterlyOtterly · 07/09/2024 20:47

GrumpyPanda Thank you for adding a new word to my vocabulary 😁

Runningupthecurtains · 07/09/2024 20:46

ElderMrs · 07/09/2024 18:12

I completely agree. A biological male with a penis should not be in a woman's race.

The penis per se is not the issue, neither the removal of a penis or the suppression of testosterone reduced heart size, lung capacity, blood volume, alter q angles, alter height to wing span ratios, decrease hand size or alter any of the other 100s of differences between male and female bodies. No one who is male belongs in women's sport regardless of how much surgery they have or how many hormones they take.

Soldieringnonosoldiershere · 07/09/2024 20:44

I think his cock is very womanly I’ll have you know.

Well it must be.

he’s a woman

right?

endofthelinefinally · 07/09/2024 20:39

stripybobblehat · 07/09/2024 17:14

The athlete has a visual impairment I believe. They aren't claiming that being transgender is a disability.

HE is still a man. He should not be competing with women.

itsgettingweird · 07/09/2024 20:36

www.context.news/socioeconomic-inclusion/which-paralympic-sports-allow-trans-athletes-to-take-part#

This is an interesting and hopefully informative read.

Leafstamp · 07/09/2024 20:29

Livinginaclock · 07/09/2024 15:43

He is a disgusting cheating man

This.

WheresMySupportCat · 07/09/2024 20:27

It's funny how these people never want to identify into the actual reality of woman-hood. The physical vulnerabilities the social and economic disadvantages.

But when it comes to medals....

Just musing.

Katkins17 · 07/09/2024 20:04

Until the IOC realise that women are not men with low testosterone, the sooner this horrible unfairness will stop.

Anyone clapping along with this thinking it's 'inclusive' really needs to give their head a wobble.

GrumpyPanda · 07/09/2024 20:03

UtterlyOtterly · 07/09/2024 19:26

Call me old fashioned , but isn't that an unusually large penis for a woman?

I believe they call it their "clitty" these days.

onwardsup4 · 07/09/2024 20:02

Livinginaclock · 07/09/2024 15:43

He is a disgusting cheating man

This. No one of that age can compete at this level. He is because of the natural male advantage. Disgusting and embarrassing. Shame on those in charge and who allowed this farce to happen.

viques · 07/09/2024 20:01

WheresMySupportCat · 07/09/2024 19:38

Well- that's not what the Italian sports bodies said when Imane Khelif was busily breaking the nose of Angela Carini.

The whole thing is rotten rotten to the core.

No man should be in womens sports, refuges, safe spaces, prisons, hospitals.

Just fuck right off with your male pattern entitlement.

(ETA- not you, viques! Just in case it was not clear. I'm agreeing with you).

Edited

I know! It stinks. And the Italians need to join up the dots. The very marginal difference is that IK claims that they are a woman, has always been a woman, and will continue to say as much until the results of the chromosome tests are released, which they will be eventually, whereas Valentina is quite open that they “ transitioned” and say they are “now” a woman Personally I don’t think either of them have any right to claim to be women, but I am a mean rights hoarding dinosaur feminist who thinks women’s spaces , women’s sports and women’s language need to be protected.

WheresMySupportCat · 07/09/2024 20:00

But....he has such lovely dangly .... earrings, Clearly a woman- bigot.

Totallymessed · 07/09/2024 20:00

Note the ladylike bulge in his shorts 🤑

Totallymessed · 07/09/2024 19:59

For anyone uncertain, here's a photo of the lovely lady in question. So I'll go with no, he's a fucking shameless cheat.

Valentina Petrillo shouldn't be allowed to compete in the women's race
Namechangeforadhd · 07/09/2024 19:57

And the hypocrisy and double standards shown up by the fact that the Italians were (quite rightly) not at all happy with their female boxer having to fight Khelif, whilst in Paras they field a male.

WheresMySupportCat · 07/09/2024 19:54

Petrillo stole a place at the Olympics from a worthy woman.

Laurel Hubbard (the situation that peaked me) stole a place from an 18 year old woman from Nauru. A young woman from a teeny tiny country that had not had an Olympic athlete for 20 years. And hard-of-thinking numpties think that the inclusion of men in women's sports is progressive. .

x.com/WomRugbyComp/status/1680113372011048961

ThePure · 07/09/2024 19:52

I really feel as though that photo shows this is beyond cheating and into the realms of gaslighting and involving the whole world in their sexual fetish

Other styles of shorts are available.
If you were uncomfortable in your male body, ie gender dysphoric would you not make more efforts at passing??

This person looks like Grayson Perry decided to have a go at running.

itsgettingweird · 07/09/2024 19:48

It'll be the IPC. International para committee.

Although I'm not sure it's them as I'm not sure every sport allows this.

It may be IPA - international para athletics.

Although something tells me it's W - world now 😵‍💫

WelshMoth · 07/09/2024 19:46

He is a cheating bastard.
Second rate male athlete in his field and now taking the competing space of another woman who has grafted her ass off to get there.
The IOC must really hate women.

itsgettingweird · 07/09/2024 19:41

We have plenty of men who claim to be women across most sports & it is a massive issue. This is not limited to para sport at all.

Yes they claim.

But they can't compete when it comes to competition under the NGB license.

That's why Lia Thomas can't race as a woman in swimming. A local unlicensed club gala may allow it. Anything licensed is male/open and female. It's the same for swimming in the UK and also international swimming.

Most sports bodied nationally have adopted this as most international sports bodies have the same rules. (I know boxing doesn't).

stripybobblehat · 07/09/2024 19:40

itsgettingweird · 07/09/2024 18:12

I realise that stripy. My comment with in regards to in AB athletics you can't run as a woman if you are a transwoman.

So how come in para athletics you can?

My point being it isn't a disability so why the difference in Ab and para?

Believe me I understand para sport extremely well - my ds is a para swimmer!

Ah right sorry I missunderstood. As you were :)

itsgettingweird · 07/09/2024 19:39

NGB - national governing body

AB - able bodied.

The international bodies mostly also have the same transgender policies where only females born female sex can compete as females and the rest compete male/open.

I have to admit I assumed it was the same in para sport. And I'm embarrassed I didn't realise as my ds is a para swimmer.

I want to see if WPS (world para swimming) have the same male/open and female as AB. But part of me is scared to look!

WickedSerious · 07/09/2024 19:38

Helleofabore · 07/09/2024 16:31

Don’t forget though, apparently there are new discoveries that have turned the world on its head. Apparently, a group of male people should be made happy and female people should shut the fuck up.

'Science has moved on',or so we're told.

It's a shame reality can't keep up with it.