Sport again - Paralympics

[andyoldlabour]

It would appear that Valentina Petrillo, the Italian transgender sprinter is eyeing up some medals at the European Paralympic Championships starting 1st June. Petrillo won 11 National men's titles between 2016 and 2018. The Tokyo Paralympics start on 24th August, so I wonder if Petrillo has qualified for those events?

www.womenarehuman.com/first-male-athlete-with-male-documents-to-compete-in-womens-sports-category-at-national-level/?fbclid=IwAR0L86422AE3M0bpZEigJ7-BBaiy4dM8mW64-MrTOnWXRD3KbN85DxzdglE

That makes me so angry to read.

I'm fuming. Further explanation could result in a deletion so I'll stop.

But.

FFS.

I had to leave the thread when I first read it. I got so cross.

"On an athletic level, my opponents are very far away, let’s just say that I have no rivals, but none are angry with me for this.”

Do the paras have different laws to Olympics? If expect an article on this to say about hormone levels and how person is in some level of acceptance. But it makes it sound like they identify as a women and that is the sun and total of anything they have done?

Never mind I clicked on article link in
The first one and they do have a level to keep to but also shows that this still gives them Major advantages. I suspect we are going see this for few years yet before there are enough for a third category to level out the abilities.

THE WORLD HAS GONE MAD.

I didn't mean to type that in all caps but actually we should be shouting from the rooftops.

How on earth is this happening??
If someone had predicted this 20 years ago they would have been laughed out of the room.

Hopefully this will open more eyes to the outrageousness of it all.

Can identify as disabled, I might stand a chance

This person is competing and winning against female athletes who are twenty years younger. Does that not matter to anybody? Even if you think TWAW surely this should ring alarm bells. Surely somebody has noticed how unfair it is. My daughter trains so hard and loves athletics. I feel like there is no point.

Was formerly a medal winner in male competitions when a lot younger.

47 years old and winning international 100, 200 and 400m races... so they are setting veterans world records every time they do this as well as elite records...

47 years old and winning international 100, 200 and 400m races... so they are setting veterans world records every time they do this as well as elite records...
And those records are just going to be unbeaten for years, aren't they? Which means basically all future women athletes can just accept they are never going to be a record breaker. It makes me so mad.

Absolutely fucking horrendous.

I'm not particularly sporty but I know growing up sport was a life saver for many of my female friends, I feel so very sorry and angry for young girls growing up now who will miss out on that opportunity.

Female 100 metre records are equalled by 45 year old men and would be pushed hard by 50 year old record holders, so Valentina's performance at 47 not at all surprising. Moreover there are also no problems with the menopause.

Outsports apparently think that there will be at least nine transgender athletes at the paralympic and olympic games this year.

www.outsports.com/2021/5/12/22428082/trans-olympic-athlete-tokyo-ioc-paralympic

This is one of them, a person named Quinn who currently plays for the Canadian women's football team. Can somone please help me unpick all this, because I don't know who Quinn is, what their natal sex is and it is all very confusing.

www.outsports.com/2020/12/27/22196235/outsports-non-binary-athlete-quinn-transgender-canada-sweden-vittsjo-gik-layshia-clarendon-wnba

They won a silver medal at the 2012 CONCACAF U 17 competition, but I can't see their name in the Canadian squad.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_women%27s_national_under-17_soccer_team

"They were permitted to continue playing professional women's football because they were assigned female at birth and their biological sex remained female"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinn_(soccer)

Quinn is female, so will not be competing with an unfair advantage.

Quinn is non binary in gender identity but is a member of the female sex class so no conflict of rights.

I couldn’t follow the piece about LC who has interchangeable pronouns, I wasn’t sure if the writer meant LC or LC plus the organisation mentioned, when it changed from she/her to they/them/their. I gave up after the second attempt.

Sorry Aaron crosspost

Layshia Clarendon is non binary but born female. Has posted pictures of '' top ' surgery

So they think it’s ok to boast about having no competition or rivals in Paralympic women’s sport but that it’s ok because disabled women are more accepting… or are we just used to be trampled over, spoken at and for and silenced in every element of our existence and find it futile speaking out anymore?

I can’t believe the arrogance. Wants to compete despite having no competition. Will do it anyway because no one has the guts to complain anymore and that’s mistaken for acceptance?

The photograph reminds me of a thread pointing out how often articles in favour of trans athletes show them photographed alone. When photographed with their competitors, the difference is so obvious.

As a Paralympian where fairness is ensured by a very complex series of categories and handicaps, it is especially appalling that a competitor should ignore the advantage a male body gives them and denigrate their opponents because they don't have this physical advantage.

Wrong photo! This one.