On the eve of the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games, International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Andrew Parsons announced that although “much work remains to be done to achieve gender parity… having increased female participation significantly at the Winter Games in the last 20 years, shows we are heading in the right direction”. Later, the Women’s Sport Foundation (US) published a report on the 2022 Games, noting that 16 delegations did not send any female athletes to the Paralympics, and only four nations sent at least ten female athletes, concluding that “Despite the IPC pursuing gender parity in athletic opportunities much earlier than the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at their current rate of increase equality will not be achieved until 2066”. In this chapter, we illustrate how gender parity has been framed within the Paralympic Movement and at the Paralympic Games and discuss how this framing has resulted in initiatives that allow the IPC to claim that progress is being made even as great disparities persist. We highlight the limited increase in opportunities for disabled women in Para sport and challenge narratives of ‘progress’ towards gender balance. We argue that at a moment when the Paralympics are receiving more media attention than ever, media practitioners have a role to play in interrogating the claims being made. We conclude by discussing what is required of high-quality sport journalism in the context of Paralympic sport.