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

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).

What do your abbreviations mean?
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.

Easy an open category and a female only would do the trick!

That's pretty much the norm for nearly every NGB in AB sport.

I can't understand why para sport is t the same?

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

Easy an open category and a female only would do the trick!

HE'S taken the place

HE is a bloke

I mean they haven't thought about it at all. If they had, that athlete wouldn't have been there. So yes, they need to think about it. Properly. If they want to be inclusive to trans athletes, they need to put thought into how they do that, rather than just dumping them into women's events.

Of course it's not fair, and no he shouldn't be swinging his little d**k around a race track alongside women. Makes me sick.

Things is they don't allow males to compete on the female catagory in AB sport.

They have female and male/open categories.

So why is it allowed in para sport.

Is it because they think those with disabilities should be "more inclusive" or something because they expect inclusivity and equality?

Para sport is just as tough and competitive as AB sport. It should be treated as such.

Valentina Petrillo shouldn't be allowed to compete in the women's race
Of course he shouldn’t. He’s cheating, and having the time of his life kicking women’s sports into the ground.

Male humans are faster and stronger than females. See http://boysvswomen.com for the statistics showing how easily schoolboys beat elite female athletes.

The big question future generations will ask is why the hell sports governing bodies, and indeed governments, suddenly started saying that a man’s a woman if he says he is.

All women who support women's sport need a t shirt with this on.

He's a cheating man taking advantage of this ridiculous zeitgeist of gendered souls. I can't wait for the Galileos of our time (aka JKRowling, Martina Navratilova, etc.) to finally get the credit deserved for saying, "uh, no. This is nuts."

Nor, it should be said, even if he's lost his penis.

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

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!

Fuck the IOC

Absolutely no question, no they shouldn't be allowed to compete.

I've posted before about my experience of a trans woman in an indoor rowing European championship event, this was a non para event (i had a para classification) and had a transwoman in her 60's racing against women at least half her age, some of these women were in the armed forces so extremely fit. I thought it was great that the trans woman could compete in the race.

The transwoman was bigger and physically stronger and despite the massive age difference won by a clear majority, the three fastest women were all within a couple of seconds of each other. That one race showed to me that biology does matter and that trans athletes (of which you never hear of trans men encountering this problem) shouldn't be allowed to compete.

i had a para classification and then ultimately the classification system changed and I no longer met the requirements to be classified so I can't compete any more, this was heartbreaking and infuriating but I understand it, my heartbreaks more for the Italian VI athlete who may now never get to compete in a Paralympic's due to this.

What baffles me most is presumably in cases where the disability isnt very obvious paralympians must need to somehow "prove" thast they are hearing/sight impaired or similar.
So this person has had to prove they are sight impaired but not that they are a woman?
Someone would have to be completely blind not to see what sex he is

It’s not the IOC , it’s individual countries sports bodies who decide in the Paralympics, and as far as the Italian sports bodies are concerned if you say you are a woman you are a woman.

Even if your shorts call you out as a liar.

How the fuck can someone be a “trans mother” when he is the biological father of the baby?

That poor child.

Can the IOC be sued on the grounds of sex discrimination? Ditto the appropriate sporting bodies?

those hormones seem to make little impact on male entitlement. 😂but then

Apparently, a group of male people should be made happy and female people should shut the fuck up. actually nothing to laugh about.

And bought new lippy and earrings!

Yes that’s the one. Thanks for the link. I’d seen it on twitter & literally cannot believe this is where we are at.

The fact that the infant seems to be ignored in all of this is also shocking 😮.

Not only wrong it is a blatant attempt at cheating and I really don’t understand why the Paralympic Sports Bodies - who go out of their way to make sure that as far as possible Paralympic athletes are pitted like against like - refuse to recognise this.

This is a man who clearly has huge psychological issues about losing, couldn’t win any more against men, so cough transitioned and now (hooray) seems as though he can’t win against women either. He will have to turn his cheating ways to racing against little kids next.