Bravely announces her cheating
Ahhhhh fuck off.
First transgender athlete to compete in Paralympics and bravely shares her story
Typo in the title; always a good sign.
Valentina Petrillo, an Italian sprinter, is making history as the first openly transgender athlete to compete in the Paralympic Games. Set to represent Italy in Paris, Petrillo will participate in the T12 classification for visually impaired track athletes, taking on the 200m and 400m races.
That is, Valentino Petrillo is openly cheating in the Paralympic Games. How impressive.
At 50 years old, Petrillo told BBC Sport that her presence at the Games stands as a “important symbol of inclusion” as she bravely shared her story.
No, Bud, it stands as a repellent symbol of widespread male cheating.
“The historic value of being the first transgender woman to compete at the Paralympics is an important symbol of inclusion.”
Nope. Cheating. Not the same thing.
From 2015 to 2018, Petrillo dominated the T12 classification as a male athlete, racking up 11 national titles. After transitioning in 2018 with her wife’s support and starting hormone therapy in January 2019, she experienced profound changes.
Whatever. He didn’t turn into a woman. He’s cheating.
Bracing for potential criticism at the Paralympic Games, Petrillo said: “This is not a lifestyle choice for me, this is who I am. And the way I am, like all transgender people who do not feel they belong to their biological gender, should not be discriminated against in the same way that race, religion or political ideology should not be discriminated against.”
No, not the same, because cheating.
Now, now; stop beating about the bush, and say what you mean! ;-)
Future historians: “The twenty-first century started with rampant cheating by men – not against one another, but against women. This is why we say it was the astonishing decades of misogyny, which ended misogyny.”
I can hope, can’t I?
I can hope they hurry up about it!
Wait a minute … what’s this “biological gender” stuff?? I thought that was a myth…
And this wasn’t a mediocre male who decided to win against females. This is someone who had a successful run as a male athlete; now, as he ages, he ‘becomes’ a female and continues to win, in a sport where a 50-year-old would probably start to struggle against younger competitors.
He can present how he likes and be however he likes, change his name and how he dresses, whatever, … and continue to compete in his sport in the men’s division. There you go: THAT’S what “transgender inclusion in sport” looks like. It’s about time that men learned that there is more than one way for male athletes to dress or behave. It’s a problem for the men to solve among themselves, and has nothing to do with women.
Wait. Wait. Waitwaitwait. “Political ideology” should not be discriminated against? So, you’re saying that evil TERFYmcTERFs should not be discriminated against? That would be refreshing.
(Also, of course, there are times when you absolutely can discriminate on the basis of religion–say, when deciding who gets to be a Roman Catholic priest. Jews, Muslims and Buddhists need not apply.)
This whole “first openly transgender” crap is such sneaky bullshit, isn’t it? It’s part of the “there have always been transgender people why are making a fuss about it now” narrative. The pretense that the history of everything is absolutely riddled with trans people, but none of us would ever know unless they are “openly transgender”.
Freemage, yes, and furthermore you absolutely can “discriminate against” political ideology, too, and everyone does, all the time. People tend to choose one and not the others, aka they discriminate.
‘Biological gender’ is not a thing that exists, it isn’t even a coherent idea. Biology means sex, while gendered things are things perceived to be associated with a sex.
Catwhisperer, that’s one of the things that annoys me. The first openly transgender whatever? Fat chance. Transgender whatevers – athletes, movie stars, military leaders – are going to have to stand in line to be the first, because in many cases, someone has already been there. But they keep proclaiming the first, so they continue to sound marginalized.