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Rowling "Knows Nothing" About Paralympian

05/02/2025

Valentino Petrello, the first openly trans woman to compete at the Paralymic Games, which were recently concluded in Paris, has eloquently and intelligent clapped back at transphobic writers spearheaded by Joanne Rowling who accused her of being a cheat.  Ms Petrello told the Independent Newspaper,  JK Rowling “doesn’t know anything about me” after the Harry Potter author’s criticism of the transgender sprinter.  The 51-year-old explained that she had “never read Harry Potter.” “JK Rowling is only concerned about the fact that I use the female toilet, but she doesn’t know anything about me,” she said,  “Since 2015, when the IOC opened the Olympics to transgender people, there has only been one person who competed, Laurel Hubbard, [a weightlifter from New Zealand]. And there has only been one [openly transgender] person that has participated at the Paralympics, me.  “So all of this fear that trans people will destroy the world [of women’s sport] actually does not exist. People said [lots of] men would go to compete as women just so they could win, but that has not happened at all. It is just transphobia.”  

 

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