CeCe Telfer won the DII women’s 400-meter hurdles for Franklin Pierce University (FPU) on Saturday night, beating a biological woman by more than a second.
“Telfer is the first student-athlete in Franklin Pierce history to collect an individual national title,” the university proudly announced.
According to US National Collegiate Athletic Association, the NCAA’s policy is that male athletes who identify as transgender can compete as women if they lower their testosterone levels for a full calendar year.
If high testosterone levels remain a problem, there are the so-called mixed teams — which have both males and females — in which athletes compete in the men’s division, but not in the women’s division, according to NCAA rules.
“It was tough conditions out here with the wind and the heat over the last three days but, as she has over the last six months, CeCe proved herself to be tough enough to handle it,” said the athlete’s coach FPU coach Zach Emerson in a press release.
“Today was a microcosm of her entire season; she was not going to let anything slow her down. I’ve never met anybody as strong as her mentally in my entire life,” Emerson remarked. According to OutSports, a pro-LGBT website, Telfer is “a trans athlete who doesn’t win every time”.
Telfer’s hollow victory over women competing in the race, came less than two hours after taking fifth place in the 100-meter hurdles.
Telfer previously ran as the male athlete Craig, according to school records. He was in fact a member of FPU’s men’s track team as recently as January 2018, according to published competition results from the Middlebury Winter Classic in Vermont.
At some point, he started using the name CeCe while still competing on the men’s team before his transformation into a female.
The NCAA’s self-serving Transgender Handbook claims: “According to medical experts on this issue, the assumption that a transgender woman competing on a women’s team would have a competitive advantage outside the range of performance and competitive advantage or disadvantage that already exists among female athletes is not supported by evidence.”
South African Caster Semenya, dogged by gender accusations, have been leading to efforts by track and field’s governing body to change rules on testosterone in female athletes.
Semenya, who suffers from a rare hyperandrogenist intersex condition, was found to be “female with a penis” in 2009. But Semenya actually lives “her” life as a stereotypical married male.
