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In 2019, she started a gender transitioning process; [2] [9] Petrillo competed for the first time in the women's category at the Italian Paralympic Athletics Championships on 11 September 2020, marking the first time in paralympic sports that a transgender person was allowed to do so.
There have been 62 [a] modern Paralympians who have identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, non-binary, queer, or who have openly been in a same-sex relationship, including two who also competed at the Olympic Games. The first Paralympic Games in which an athlete now known to be LGBT+ competed was the 1992 Summer ...
In two weeks, she is set to become the first transgender woman to compete at the Paralympics when she runs the 200 and 400 meters in the T12 classification for visually impaired athletes in Paris.
There have been 827 modern Olympians [a] (including Paralympians, Summer Olympic athletes and artists, and Winter Olympians) who have identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, non-binary, and/or queer, or who have openly been in a same-sex relationship.
Marco Mantovani/Getty Images Italian sprinter Valentina Petrillo is set to make history as the first transgender athlete to compete in the Paralympic Games. Petrillo, 50, will take part in the ...
The International Paralympic Committee says that while Petrillo is the first openly transgender woman to compete in track events at the Paralympics, a transgender athlete from the Netherlands, Ingrid van Kranen, competed in the women’s discuss throw at the 2016 Paralympics.
Transgender activism took off, and the internet was said to be a useful tool for popularising and ultimately globalising equality movements. [37] Transgender athletes were first allowed to compete in 2004. [54] In the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, only 15 athletes out of the 10,708 participants were openly gay, lesbian or bisexual. Of them ...
The policy allows transgender athletes to compete in the sport category that aligns to their gender identity. Transgender women are permitted to compete in a men's UTSNZ competition. If a transgender woman has undergone testosterone suppression for 12 months, she may also compete in women's competitions. [189]