Oh dear, here we go again. Take your marks……

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It’s almost as though they think if they keep doing it we will give up in the end. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/13/valentina-petrillo-to-become-first-openly-transgender-athlete-at-paralympics

And he has misplaced Melani Berges from the Spanish Olympic team as a result 😤😡🤬

Transitioned at 45 so has a massive advantage in muscle strength, endurance etc than Melani and all other biological females.

Another fucking cheat.

"the first openly transgender athlete to participate in the Paralympic Games "

Are they telling us that other men pretending to be women have previously participated and we didn't know about it?

That's a licensed piece from Reuters.

It’s cheating!!!!!!!!!!

All the wrangling that goes on w.r.t. eligibility for para Olympic categories it totally blows my mind that they're happy just to allow the greatest advantage possible (male puberty)

Another male cheat 🫠

Exactly, the categories are really strictly monitored, for example there was a point where it looked like Alfie Hewitt, multi grand slam winning wheelchair tennis player, wasn't going to be allowed to play wheelchair tennis any more due to the nature of his disability, luckily they sorted that out, but the categories often change and some athletes lose out. And then they just wave a man through. Disgusting. Melani is still in another event, but should be in both.

Pretty much. For the non para Olympics, Stella Walsh is an interesting Google dive....

I don't know why anyone is concerned, they're wearing nail polish.

Another entitled male taking a woman's place. And the world claps on...

I hope he's beaten, but then they use that as the argument that maleness confers no advantage. Which it does, but he's old. A 23 year old him would probably win.

🤣🤣

The first man to compete in the female category. Bravo!

They always do, yes to see a transwomen without it. Also seem to have the obligatory slap of lippy as well.

Hells bells,but filters are doing a shit ton of work there!!!

fucking cheat

"openly transgender" 🤣, it's not like he can hide it, it's plain to see to everyone.

No pronouns were used in that article when referring to Petrillo. It's as if she and her don't belong to him...

They probably called in the make up artist and filter wizard they used on the Algerian boxer.

What is sauce for the gander is er sauce for the gander, so to speak.

Stunning. Brave. Bloody cheat.

Yes. Interesting that looks like only the Graun used this pic and other outlets he is unmistakably male.

Surprised the DM hasn't picked this up.

They’ve filtered so hard that for a moment I thought Voldemort was back & into spray tan…

Men, fuck off out of women’s sport!

A good Times article on this (hoping share token works) and with less filtered photos