Valentina Petrillo, a transgender Paralympian sprinter from Italy, clapped back at author JK Rowling for calling her an “out and proud cheat."

“JK Rowling is only concerned about the fact that I use the female toilet, but she doesn’t know anything about me," Petrillo told The Times, a U.K.-based newspaper.

"There has only been one [openly transgender] person that has participated at the Paralympics, me. So all of this fear that trans people........

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