A former 400-meter hurdles National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) transgender champion, has vowed to return to women's sport and dominate it.
Knewz.com has learned that Cecé Telfer transitioned from male to female in 2018, whereafter they partook in women’s competitions and started winning.
In an interview with the LGBT-focused news outlet, Them, Telfer said “I was never a boy, never saw myself as a boy, never identified as a boy, never conformed to anything that was masculine boy unless my parents were forcing it upon me.”
After the transition procedure, Telfer won the NCAA women’s track and field championship in 2019.
Breitbart reported on Telfer’s athletic track record at the time saying:
“The transgender athlete claimed to have ‘transitioned’ to a woman in 2018 and went from a mediocre competitor as a college male to a sudden top-tier winner after entering women’s competitions in 2019.”
Come 2021, USA Track and Field banned Telfer from participating in the female Olympic trials citing “hormone-level eligibility” issues.
Two years later, the international sports body World Athletics adopted the same stance and banned all transgender women from participating in female sports.
When asked about this development, Telfer said: “It breaks my heart because I had an opportunity. The NCAA saw me. They gave me a chance to be that voice and be that physical change, and they were taking a step in the right direction and obviously creating history, hoping that other organizations would follow,” per Them.
The publication claims that following the transition and during the transgender athlete's participation in women’s sports, Telfer was reduced to “homelessness and estrangement from her biological family” while other athletes allegedly resorted to harassment.
As a nod to the latter Telfer said: “I came to the realization that [my mother was] never going to love me for who I am.”
“So I came out to her. Everything that I thought was going to happen pretty much happened. It was easier for me to let go of her knowing that she was going to come [at] me with hate, no love, and just a lot of bad stuff,” said Telfer, who described the decision to “come out” as liberating.
“I felt like it was going to be worse, and I was going to be depressed for months. But I’ve never been happier. I’ve never been freer. I’ve never been lighter.”
Telfer, when questioned by Them about 2024’s plans, said:
“I look forward to indoor track because 2024 indoors is going to be epic. 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.”
Telfer knows that the road forward will not be an easy one:
“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.”
