A visually impaired sprinter hopes to become the first transgender athlete to compete in the Paralympic Games. Italy's Valentina Petrillo, 47, competed in men's national races before transitioning in 2019. She was born with Stargardt disease, a degenerative eye condition that has no cure. After decades of 'dressing up as a man', as she describes it, she came out to her wife, who supported her as she began living as a woman and then started hormone therapy. The couple remain married and share two children. Now, less than a year after winning her first official race as a female paralympic athlete at the Italian Paralympics Championship, Petrillo is hoping to make it onto Italy's Paralympic squad.