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Valentina Petrillo is set to become the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the Paralympic Games .
The 50-year-old sprinter will compete in the women's T12 classification for athletes with visual impairments.
The IPC allows international sport governing bodies to set their own policies.
World Para Athletics has banned transgender women from competing in the female category at international events.
Valentina Petrillo is the first transgender woman to compete at the Paralympics .
Petrillo said she has been waiting for this day for three years and has done everything possible to earn it.
The Italian Paralympic Federation and the ItalianParalympic Committee for having always believed in me, above all as a person as well as an athlete, Petrillo told BBC Sport .
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