CeCe Telfer, the transgender athlete who caused controversy by winning the 2019 NCAA women’s track and field championship, is threatening to re-enter women’s athletics and claiming she’ll “win every title.”
Telfer returned to track and field this year after winning an NCAA title in 2019, winning a medal in the women’s invitational 60-meter hurdles in Boston in February.
The transgender athlete claimed to have “transitioned” to female in 2018, and since competing in women’s competitions in 2019 has risen from a mediocre male collegiate player to a top-tier winner.
Male runner CeCe Telfer defeated a female college student in the final of the Women’s Invitational Meet in Boston last month.
Telfer, the first openly transgender man to win the women’s NCAA 400-meter hurdles national title (2019), was running alone when he was hit by a female athlete… pic.twitter.com/LwEC3zqsJT
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In her new book, Telfer says she’s ready to return to athletics and warns she plans to bar all women from women’s track and field titles.
“I’m looking forward to indoor track in 2024 because it’s going to be great,” Telfer said in an interview. they“Once again, my dreams have been taken away from me, so I plan to go back to New England and compete in all the indoor meets and get all the names and records.”
Telfer specifically criticized the suspension he received in 2021, when he was denied entry to the 2024 Olympic Trials.
The runner warned that he plans to win as many indoor track titles as he can.
“I’m not always going to get first place, I’m not always going to get second place, I’m not always going to be on the podium, but track meets are important. They keep the fire burning in my mind and my body. So I can go for it knowing that I can still go into an indoor meet and be the talk of the town,” he said.
The NCAA, which governs indoor track and field, already has a trans policy that allows transgender athletes born male to compete as women if they meet certain testosterone requirements. The organization is reportedly considering some changes to that policy but has not yet said what those changes might be.
Other sports organizations have also moved to impose stricter restrictions or bans on transgender athletes, such as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NAIA) which recently banned transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports.
Telfer slammed the NAIA’s policy, calling it “regressive.”
“Why are we going back? Why are we going backwards? We’re literally going backwards in history,” Telfer told Them. “This is not real. We’ve been going forward and now we’re going backwards. This is frightening. The fact that people have the power to go backwards is frightening, not just for trans women, but for society as a whole, because [anti-trans advocates are] “It’s not going to stop with transgender women. No, they’ve always policed women’s bodies. The focus is going to be on cisgender women and what’s happening to their lives and their bodies.”
“It’s heartbreaking because I had a chance,” he concluded, “and the NCAA took notice, gave me a chance to speak up and get physical. They took a step in the right direction and were clearly making history with the hope that other organizations would follow suit.”
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