As I wrote here previously, I was relieved to see the end of the Olympic Games on Sunday. This was largely because of the scars left on the competition by males being allowed to box against females in an unfair and potentially dangerous fashion. But it turns out that we’re not out of the woods yet. With the official Olympic Games behind us, we now have the Paralympic Games coming close on their heels. These games allow athletes with various physical impairments to compete for their own shot at Olympic glory. But at least one group of athletes won’t be given the same opportunity as the others. The organizers of the games are going to allow a visually impaired male transgender sprinter from Italy to compete against the women. As the New York Post put it last night, this has to stop.
Valentina Petrillo is visually impaired, but anyone can see this fact clearly.
The Italian sprinter —…
