Paralympic Melania Bergés, defeated by a trans athlete in the Olympics: “His physical abilities are man”

He is 34 years old – 35 in this 2025 – and won his first World Cup with 14 years. Has visited the set of Sonsoles Onega To share with the journalist and the audience what she considers something “unfair,” a “obsolete” system that makes “people not compete on equal terms.” And is that Melania Bergés is a Paralympic athlete that fell to the trans athlete Valentina Petrillo In two high -level competitions: «He won me in the 2023 World Cup and in the Rio Olympics. She had competed for more than 40 years as a man and is unfair because her physical abilities are man. We have different physical abilities ».

This has been in ‘And now Sonsoles‘(Antena 3), where the journalist and presenter asked her about how she faces the situation and she has explained that it is something that does not quite understand. «There must be a regulation. There are biological factors that must be taken into account and it is key to rethinking everything and that the competition is more fair. My speech will always be that of social integration, of course, but at the competition level this must be regulated in some way ».

Benjamín Lópeza political analyst who is on the payroll of collaborators of Sonsoles Onega, has referred to this. “It is a clear case, of those male athletes who go to compete in female.” Valeria VegasTrans writer, has taken the opportunity to “clarify something necessary,” according to her, “and it is the fact that all trans people are not the same. I, for example, I am not able to open a bottle. I have no strength, you know? Given this, the Paralympic athlete who was on set claimed that for that reason, there should be a series of “parameters for the abilities to compete were similar, that it was on equal terms.”

Melania Bergés He has clarified that this is done at other levels. «Within Paralympic sport there are categories. Within my own disability there are degrees, so to speak, and I cannot compete, for example, with someone who sees nothing, although I have a 90% visual disability. Nor could I with people with physical disabilities, so I consider that it is also to regulate.

The sportsman He has said goodbye to Sonsoles Onega emphasizing his discourse for normalization, equal opportunities and inclusion, but without neglecting that we are “talking about sports competitions and this is different, so it should be regulated differently.”