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Paralympic male athletes like winning against women too

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YellowFish12 · 04/06/2021 16:36

www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-57338207

The photos are ridic, huge man celebrating beating women in a rcce.

I really hare the way the BBC has quoted verbatim the "sex assigned at birth" crap and makes a million references to "cis women".

Maybe I should identify as having some sot of disability and go compete in the Paralympics? I think I might identify as only having one arm, and compete in swimming.

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EmbarrassingAdmissions · 04/06/2021 17:06

@FuriousAndFrustrated

And while we're talking about the BBC, this anti-Mumsnet article annoyed me too:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-57285368

"On the UK's biggest online community for mums she didn't get the support she was hoping for.

"I went on to Mumsnet to find people like me, who would tell me it was going to be OK and that the way I was feeling was totally normal," she says.

Instead she was greeted by a wall of harsh judgement.

"People said I was ungrateful and didn't deserve to have children," she says. "I was told Social Services should take my children away.""

This isn't the Mumsnet I recognise.

No. I was a long time ago but even so, I don't recognise that description as there tends to be an instinctive empathy for posters with PND.

It's interesting it's buried in what seems to be serious problems with her own group (the main hook for the story).

JellySlice · 04/06/2021 17:02

The first part of the article, the part about the trans athlete is fantastically garbled. If it is put in chronological order, it becomes blindingly obvious that this is not about fair access to sport, but about validating one person's desires.

At the age of 41 (ie pre-transition) [Fabrizio] won 11 national titles in three years in the male T12 category for athletes with visual impairment.

Valentina started living as a woman in 2018.

Six months after starting treatment [Valentina] had lost about 11 seconds in the 400m and 2.5 seconds in the 200m.

[Valentina] is now 47... it was only last September that [Valentina] ran as a female para-athlete - at the Italian Paralympics Championship, [and] won gold in the 100m, 200m and 400m T12 events.

"Better to be a slow happy woman than a fast unhappy man."

Slow? Hardly!

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YellowFish12 · 04/06/2021 16:47

I see in that article that Petrillo's visual impairment has had to be downgraded

Yup cheater does what a cheater does... the letter from the women athletes said they are happy to run with the male-born person, but don't want the male-born person competing against the female-born people for titles. What could be fairer than that? If the male-born person just wants to be accepted as a lay-deeeeee? But no, the male-born person wants to WIN WIN WIN at any cost.

They seem to have a disproportionate number of "yay trans, stunning and brave!" articles.

I know right? They are so one sided and really normalised the 'trans language' about othering and downgrading women.

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FuriousAndFrustrated · 04/06/2021 16:47

And while we're talking about the BBC, this anti-Mumsnet article
annoyed me too:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-57285368

"On the UK's biggest online community for mums she didn't get the support she was hoping for.

"I went on to Mumsnet to find people like me, who would tell me it was going to be OK and that the way I was feeling was totally normal," she says.

Instead she was greeted by a wall of harsh judgement.

"People said I was ungrateful and didn't deserve to have children," she says. "I was told Social Services should take my children away.""

This isn't the Mumsnet I recognise.

FuriousAndFrustrated · 04/06/2021 16:41

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Clymene · 04/06/2021 16:41

I see in that article that Petrillo's visual impairment has had to be downgraded.

Cheat.

Abhannmor · 04/06/2021 16:38

Or you could identify as a non swimmer 🏊‍♂️

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