Galician athlete Ana Peleteiro, bronze medalist in the triple jump at Tokyo 2020 and European indoor champion at Glasgow 2019, He denounced this Wednesday that he had been subjected to “enormous harassment” on social networks in recent days. after opposing the ability of transgender people to compete in professional sports.

“I’ve been receiving overwhelming harassment through the networks for the past few days. Countless numbers of people insult me, wish me dead, wish my family were sick, and even send hate messages asking God to hopefully break a leg or seriously injure me.” Away from the slopes,” he wrote in a statement posted on their network.

Peleteiro guarantees This harassment doesn’t “affect” her “daily” because she worked “hard” in therapy to fit this type of message.That’s why he won’t change his talk about “opening the doors” to trans people in professional sport.

“Of course I have to defend the rights of CIS women, but This doesn’t mean that I hate trans women or that I don’t want their situation to be regulated in some way.. But, of course, I would never be in favor of women having to compete with people who are genetically superior to us for that to happen…”, says Peleteiro.

In this sense, he said: “I love and respect one hundred percent” LGTBI communityTherefore, he will continue to advocate for a group of his “friends and even family members”.

Justifying his refusal to compete with transgender athletes in professional sports, claiming that this is what the Federation advocates, the athlete said, “I will defend and fight for their rights every day, as I have always done for the rights of CIS women.” International Athletics.

“After years of research, they come to the following conclusion: No matter how much a man lowers his testosterone level, he will never be like a woman.. “Because of its maturation in this way, it involves a morphological, bony change and many levels that cannot be changed regardless of the drug,” he said.

According to Peleteiro, resolving this conflict would involve “adapting” a category so that athletes could “compete on an equal footing for all or participate in non-federated sports”, because the reverse would be unfair, he says.