Read about what author J.K. Rowling said about transgender Paralympics sprinter Valentina Petrillo in her latest tweets.
You would think that being named in a literal cyberbullying lawsuit would maybe deter J.K. Rowling from tweeting for longer than a couple of weeks. And yet, the Harry Potter author has proved once again that she has a terminal case of poster’s disease by targeting 51-year-old visually impaired transgender Paralympian Valentina Petrillo. Petrillo made history Monday night at the Paralympics in Paris as the first out trans women to compete in a Paralympics track event.
” But even though Petrillo did not advance in the competition, Rowling still felt the need to weigh in on her supposedly “unfair” participation, alongside other anti-trans social media commentators. On Monday, Rowling posted to X sarcastically questioning “all the anger about the inspirational Petrillo.” “The cheat community has never had this kind of visibility!” she wrote. “Out and proud cheats like Petrillo prove the era of cheat-shaming is over.
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