The athlete Ana Peleteiro has been immersed in a great controversy this week. The Galician decided to get wet publicly in the debate on the fit of transgender athletes in women’s competitions, assuring that the doors should be “opened” to these people, but “in non-professional sport”.
“If you have matured as a man, even if your testosterone levels drop, your bone density and muscle development is different from that of other women,” argued the Galician athlete in an interview in the Smoda supplement of El País.
“In athletics, the woman who jumps the most is 15 meters and a peak and the man 18 meters and a peak. The doors must be opened to trans people, but in non-professional sports,” he said.
“I have trans friends, I think about what they suffer to show how they feel, and they have my support, but the issue of sports competition is delicate,” she concluded, raising a great media storm that still haunts her today.
And it is that the same athlete, who has just rejoined the activity after a break to be a mother, has received multiple attacks on social networks. The same athlete has recounted this “harassment” suffered in a statement published on Twitter.
“For a few days I have been receiving enormous harassment on the networks. An innumerable number of people who insult me, wish me death, wish my family ill and even send hate messages asking God to hopefully break my leg or any serious injury that will take me away from the slopes”, explained the Galician.
In his message, Peleteiro wanted to expand his reflections on trans people: “I adore and respect the LGTBI collective 100%, I have friends and even family members who belong to it. I will always defend and fight every day for their rights, just as I do for the rights of CIS women”, he indicated.
However, she has again defended that trans people should not compete in the same category as CIS women: “In the case of sport, of course I have to defend the rights of CIS women. That does not mean that I hate trans women or that I do not want their situation to be regulated in some way, but of course I will never be in favor of women having to compete against people who are genetically superior to us for that to happen. . And this is not what Ana Peleteiro says, it is what the International Athletics Federation says, which after years of studies conclude that, no matter how much a man lowers his testosterone levels, he will never be the same as a woman”, he pointed out.
Finally, the elite athlete wanted to publicly propose the solution of “adapting a category so that we all compete on equal terms or participate in non-federated sport, since it is unfair.”
