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334bu · 13/08/2024 13:13

Doesn't look very match fit either.

WickedSerious · 13/08/2024 13:08

Fenlandia · 13/08/2024 12:33

Petrillo is almost impossible to spot in a lineup of para-athletes.

Give me a minute,I know this one.......

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lcakethereforeIam · 13/08/2024 13:04

Why is he wearing speedos?

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From the article and from the...speedos it's just hormones.

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Fenlandia · 13/08/2024 12:33

Petrillo is almost impossible to spot in a lineup of para-athletes.

TW racing women in the Para-olympics
Fenlandia · 13/08/2024 12:24

Para-athletes go through all sorts of complicated testing to ensure they are competing in the right category, and it's sometimes very marginal decisions that put someone in one category or another, making a huge difference to their chances of winning.

But Petrillo can just utter the magic words 'I'm a woman' and swan into female sports.

Plasmodesmata · 13/08/2024 09:20

Helleofabore · 13/08/2024 09:08

I remember this athlete from
the last Olympics. It is remarkable that they are back again.

Did this runner compete at Tokyo? I remember there was discussion about it but don't recall that they actually qualified.

Helleofabore · 13/08/2024 09:08

I remember this athlete from
the last Olympics. It is remarkable that they are back again.

JellySaurus · 13/08/2024 08:40

Under World Para Athletics' rules, a person who is legally recognised as a woman is eligible to compete in the category their impairment qualifies them for.

This is bonkers. We're going to be discriminate according to this physical reality but ignore that physical reality. Despite them both being relevant and significant.

PatatiPatatras · 13/08/2024 07:50

All athletes have an identity.
Sport is not played with their identity. it is played with their bodies.

this one is a full on xy with sry everything. What's the new excuse?

Someone please gift him some other midlife crisis. Leave women to enjoy stuff that's theirs.

Catsmere · 12/08/2024 22:02

Just another cheating fucking man.

I am so sick of them.

ZoneOut24 · 12/08/2024 21:50

I'm so fed up of this. Surely something's got to change. Or is women's sport essentially being taken away from us?

OvaHere · 12/08/2024 21:49

oakleaffy · 12/08/2024 20:46

Absolutely makes my blood boil for the XX women who have XY males encroaching on their sport.

Strange how trans men ( women who identify as male) don’t go in for this unsportsmanlike behaviour!

It’s men who cannot win against men who go for women’s categories.

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This one could win against other men. He just aged out of competition as all athletes do so thought he'd destroy sport for disabled women as his own consolation prize.

Decent men would take up gardening or something.

OuterSpaceCadet · 12/08/2024 21:43

How can they be the first trans Paralympian? We're told trans people have been among us passing successfully for time. So surely plenty of transmen and transwomen have competed already.

oakleaffy · 12/08/2024 20:46

334bu · 12/08/2024 19:23

50 year old male athlete, who becomes too old to compete with the men, takes away a young Italian female Paralympian' s opportunity to take part in the ultimate athletics event. Shame on him.

Absolutely makes my blood boil for the XX women who have XY males encroaching on their sport.

Strange how trans men ( women who identify as male) don’t go in for this unsportsmanlike behaviour!

It’s men who cannot win against men who go for women’s categories.

Plasmodesmata · 12/08/2024 20:44

This situation might be a harder sell for the media than poor little Imane who was born a girl and has always been a woman and if you complain you're all racists.

WickedSerious · 12/08/2024 20:44

Fuck me.they're everywhere.

Plasmodesmata · 12/08/2024 20:41

So this person won in the male category up to 2018.
then started "living as a woman"
started hormones in 2019. So, at the age of 45.
Now, at age 50, is presumably competitive against women athletes who are much younger.

How is this inclusion? It's exclusion, of a woman who has lost her spot on the Italian team.

Funnywonder · 12/08/2024 20:34

334bu · 12/08/2024 19:23

50 year old male athlete, who becomes too old to compete with the men, takes away a young Italian female Paralympian' s opportunity to take part in the ultimate athletics event. Shame on him.

These were my thoughts too.

And, as a matter of interest, who wears dangly earrings with their running gear? Oh, let me see. Someone who needs to convince everyone that they aren't a man? Jeez, what a world.

RantyMcRanterton · 12/08/2024 20:05

Christ on a bike. They are not even trying to hide it here.

RaininSummer · 12/08/2024 20:00

I am so, so sick of this and I am not even a sports fan.

Forester1 · 12/08/2024 19:55

I think it’s a good article that clearly sets out the issue. And by including the “counter argument” as to why they should be included it will hopefully illustrate how weak their argument is.

Plasmodesmata · 12/08/2024 19:43

Right. I don't even know what to say at this point.

1apenny2apenny · 12/08/2024 19:36

I really wish the other women would withdraw in protest but that's easy to say from the sidelines.

When is someone going to actually do something about this?

MattDamon · 12/08/2024 19:36

Christ, they won't even leave disabled women alone.

Interesting that he's Italian when Italy's Prime Minister was so vocal about the male boxer.

334bu · 12/08/2024 19:23

50 year old male athlete, who becomes too old to compete with the men, takes away a young Italian female Paralympian' s opportunity to take part in the ultimate athletics event. Shame on him.