Valentina Petrillo, the first trans athlete to compete at the Paralympic Games, has expressed her interest in participating in the next Paralympics, which will take place in Los Angeles in 2028. Petrillo made her debut on the grand stage at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, reaching the semi-finals of the women’s 400 metres T12.. Although she […]
The most decorated Irish Paralympic athlete of all time, Katie-George Dunlevy, discovered she had retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disorder of the eyes that causes loss of vision, when she was not yet 12 years old. Now the English-born, out gay athlete, who won a gold and two silver medals at this year’s Paralympics in Paris, hopes to inspire visually impaired […]
Valentina Petrillo, the first trans athlete to compete in the Paralympic Games, has defended her participation in Paris and hit back after Harry Potter author JK Rowling called her a ‘cheat’ on social media. Petrillo represented Italy in the women’s T12 200m and 400m sprint events for partially sighted athletes after undergoing hormone therapy and […]
LGBTQ+ athletes won a total of 28 medals at this year’s Paralympics in Paris, scoring the most medals ever and three more than at the Tokyo Paralympics in 2021.
French athlete Dimitri Pavadé, who represented his home country at this year’s Paralympics in Paris, has come out as gay following his fourth-place finish in the men’s long jump. Pavadé, who won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Games, returned to the men’s long jump T64 classification final, where he was just .06 metres […]
Martina Navratilova has come under fire after calling Italian trans athlete Valentina Petrillo, set to make history at the Paralympics a ‘pathetic cheater’. The 50-year-old, who transitioned from a male to a female in 2019, will compete in the T12 200m and 400m events having won bronze medals in both events at the World Para […]
Even before her first race at the Paris Paralympics 2024, Italian sprinter Valentina Petrillo is aware she will make history as the first trans athlete to compete in the Paralympic Games. “I hope to be the first of many,” says the 50-year-old, who will compete in the 400m T12 event for visually impaired athletes. Petrillo, […]
Visually impaired Italian sprinter, Valentina Petrillo, 50, who is set to become the first-ever transgender athlete to compete at the Paralympic Games, believes her participation is an ‘important symbol of inclusion’. Petrillo, who transitioned in 2019, won bronze in the T12 200m and 400m at the 2023 World Para Athletics – and will compete in […]
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