Define “inclusion” and “fairness”
The BBC somehow manages to talk about it while not talking about it.
Mariuccia Quilleri, a lawyer and athlete who has represented a number of fellow athletes who opposed Petrillo’s participation in women’s races, said inclusion had been chosen over fairness and “there is not much more we can do”.
Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Ukraine Oksana Boturchuk, who is racing in the semi-final heats, said: “I find this not fair, in my opinion. I am not against transgenders in general but in this situation I do not understand and don’t support it.”
Inclusion of what? Fairness to whom? What are “transgenders in general”?
It’s not an accident, this constant lack of specificity. They do it on purpose because they do not want to spell out that these are male “transgender” people cheating female people in sports.
Venezuela’s Paralympic Committee (VPC) has called it a “a terrible inequality that puts female athletes (born female) at a great disadvantage”.
General secretary Johan Marin told BBC Sport: “We are completely against discrimination, inequality and/or exclusion of any person or group in any social sphere. Therefore, respect for individual rights, inclusion and equality must always prevail.”
The BBC has so muddied the waters that I thought at first he was another defender of men’s right to invade women’s sports, but he’s saying the opposite.