Transgender Runner Who Won NCAA Title Vows To 'Take All The Records' In Women's Competition

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A transgender track and field athlete by the name of CeCe Telfer won an NCAA title in the women's division back in 2019, and is now looking to "take all the records" from biological women in the future. You, me, and everyone else are supposed to ignore this, despite how ridiculous it is for a biological man to boast about taking opportunities away from female athletes.

Telfer's story is not unlike many other stories regarding transgender athletes. The Jamaican-born runner began their collegiate career at Franklin Pierce University in 2016 competing against men, but found no success. After coming out as transgender, Telfer was allowed to compete in the women's division and eventually won an NCAA Division II title in the 400-meter hurdles in 2019.

Telfer got another taste of success against female competitors earlier this year by picking up wins in indoor track meets in the New England area and now has no plans of stopping.

"I look forward to indoor track, because 2024 indoors is going to be epic," Telfer said in an interview with Them. "My dreams were taken away from me once again. So I plan on going back to New England, hitting up all the indoor competitions, and taking all the names, all the records, and everything.

"That doesn’t look like first all the time, that doesn’t look like second place, that doesn’t look like podium all the time, but the track meets that count will count. That’s what’s burning this fire in my heart and in my body. So it’s keeping me going to know that I can go to indoor competitions and still be the girl to talk about, period."

Transgender Runner Vows To 'Take All The Records' In Women's Competition

Trans athlete CeCe Telfer is looking to break women's track records. (Photo by Rudy Gonzalez/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

The NCAA ‘updated’ its transgender policy back in January 2022 by avoiding having to make a decision on the matter itself and relying on the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee with each sport following the national governing body for each sport.

In April, the NAIA showed it has a spine and banned trans athletes from competing in women's sports with a unanimous vote.

Telfer is of the opinion that the NAIA banning biological males from women's sports is a step backward.

"Because I’m like, why are we going back? Why are we reverting? We’re literally going back in history," Telfer said. "This is not real life, because we were moving forward and now we’re moving backwards. This is scary. The fact that people are powerful enough to move backwards is scary, not only for transgender women, but it should be scary for society at large because people think that [anti-trans advocates are] going to stop at transgender women. No. They’ve always been policing women’s bodies. It’s going down to cis women and what’s going on in their lives and their bodies."

In 2021, USA Track and Field determined Telfer was ineligible to compete against women under the guidelines set for trans athletes.

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