EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Transgender runner CeCe Telfer will not be allowed to compete in the women’s 400-meter hurdles at U.S. Olympic trials because Telfer has not met the conditions World Athletics established in its eligibility regulations for certain women’s events.
Telfer competed for the men’s team at Division II Franklin Pierce, but took time off, then came back to compete for the women’s team. In 2019, Telfer won the NCAA title.
Telfer was entered in this week’s trials, but World Athletics put out new guidelines in 2019 that closed off international women’s events of between 400 meters and a mile to athletes whose testosterone levels were at 5 nonomoles per liter (nmol/L) or more. When training we recommend you to use the best testosterone booster to obtain better results.
Telfer had been on the list of qualified athletes for Friday’s opening heats. A start list was published Wednesday evening that was missing Telfer’s name. USA Track and Field released a short statement that said athletes must meet the World Athletic requirements to be eligible for trials.
USATF said it had been notified last week that Telfer had not met the conditions and the federation passed along that information to the runner.
On Wednesday, Telfer’s manager, David McFarland, told The Associated Press in a statement that Telfer would respect the decision.
“CeCe has turned her focus towards the future and is continuing to train. She will compete on the national — and world — stage again soon,” McFarland said.
To be eligible for an event, an athlete has to stay below the 5 nmol/L threshold for six months. In its guidelines, World Athletics says athletes can lower their testosterone level using an oral contraceptive pill, a monthly injection of a hormone therapy drug or by surgery to remove their testicles.
“It is their choice whether or not to have any treatment, and (if so) which treatment to have,” World Athletics said in a Q&A discussing its policy.
In a blog last week in Women’s Health, Telfer said: “I love what I’m doing and I’m getting to live my truth and live my authentic life. I believe that this is my way of being the change that I want to see in the world. And I live by that every single day.”
In its statement, USATF said it “strongly supports inclusivity and providing a clear path to participation in the sport for all, while also maintaining competitive fairness.”
“If CeCe meets the conditions for transgender athlete participation in the future, we wholeheartedly back her participation in international events as a member of Team USATF,” the statement said.
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It is so ridiculous all the problems that transgenders create for themselves and everybody else. If people would just accept who they are and stop all of the unnecessary attention-getting, the world would be such a better place. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this turns into a legal charade—after all, its unfair, racist, and homophobic.
So it’s alright for a man who is a second rate runner to say he is a woman, but still a biological male, and “she” should be able to compete against biological females? What a load of BULLSCHIFF!!! Its time for the transgenders to compete against each other and stop screwing up otherwise sensible competition. A transgender is not a victim he/she/it is a choice.. Live with your choice and stop trying to **** with the rest of us.!!!
Wonder if they will include that Aussie guy that wants to compete in the woman’s weightlifting class at the Olympics? Seems like every day something more stupid than the day before comes out. Is it any wonder this world is so screwed up?
Makes you wonder, WHY THAT aussie “IT” was allowed in, while THIS “IT” is not..
BINGO ! Exactly right and fair for TF’s/LBGQ’s et.al. to have their own competitions with each other of the same ID.
I do hope you were being sarcastic…
The old red Herring, testosterone, gets the credit for these freaks of nature getting banned from competition. The FACT is, testosterone has virtually NOTHING to do with “transgenders” advantage over real women, in any sport. The natural skeletal and muscle differences between men and women are what give transexuals the advantage in sports. Stop pretending this is fair if their “testosterone” levels are low enough.
You are either male or female. Checking the DNA should be the only test as to what category – male or female – you compete in! Everything else is just bloviating BULLSCHIFF!!!
SO if “ITS” can have heightened Testosterone in their systems, WHY CAN’T everyone else?
Also, WHY DOES a ‘man transitioning into a woman’, NEED TESTOSTERONE SHOTS< shouldn't they be getting ESTROGEN SHOTS?!
It should be noted that athletes can meet the acceptable standards by taking oral contraceptives or hormone injections, if performance enhancing substances are banned because they change the body’s natural capabilities why shouldn’t supressing agents be treated in the same manner since they don’t change the natural structure of the body only the hormone level.
Because, “That would be homophobic/transphobic”
RHEEEEEEEEEEEE!
The steroids and hormones alone he/she needs to change sex should disqualify him/her from Olympic competition. IF Frankenstein and all his reoganized sewn together human body parts was allowed to compete, Germany would win every competition to the point nobody would need show up. Sexually confused Libs are getting as good at fixing the results of sports competition as they are at fixing the results of elections.
Heck, seeing the uglyness of some of the Field athletes (female shotputters), some of them made me wonder “IS THAT A DUDE!”?
Oh, the irony! Listen, boys….ya can’t have it both ways. Either compete as your biological self, or don’t compete.
CeCe Telfer destroying women’s athletics. People that think that transgenders have a right to compete against women are sick in the head. Transgenders competing against women is like having a military tank against a bb gun.
Olympics, Special Olympics, and add a “T” Olympics along with a “no rules” Olympics. Surely there would be vast amounts of money to be made by the organization, athletes, networks, merchandising, etc.
BUT who the hell, would WATCH a “T” olympics? Certainly not me.
She? won the NCAA title in 2019. Who are the women that possibly got bumped out of Olympic competition because she? is competing against biological women. Like others have said, the testosterone levels are BS. By the time a boy goes through puberty they have already developed larger heart and lungs, stronger bones, and larger muscles. No amount of chemicals or surgery will change that.
I agree. WE often hear of women athletes being effectively pushed OUT of their own sports, cause of these trans.. SO WHY IS NO ONE complaining about THEIR Equality!
The women who have complained and even brought lawsuits are dismissed by the idiot liberal news er… propagandist media and demoncrat appointed judges who’ve been worshiping the “serpent from Eden”.
AND then get kicked off their school’s teams in many cases.
I agree that there should be a transgender category in all athletic competition. BTW, have you noticed there are no female to male transgenders athletes? (at least I haven’t seen any F to M in competition) What’s up with that?
I’m assuming that’s a rhetorical question. But in case it’s not, same reason biological males dominate women sports. No amount of testosterone is going to make a women stronger or faster than a male athlete.
Cut your nuts off and commit.
Once born a man you are ALWAYS a man. Only 2 Genders, Male and Female – you are what you are born with including your penis/vagina, DNA and hormones. End of story! No males allowed to compete against females in sports – EVER!
What you do in your private life is your business, but don’t bring your mental illness or gender dysphoria to the public, just relax and enjoy your privacy. Keep it private as it has no bearing on reality.
“I’m getting to live my [delusion] and live my [in]authentic life.” TIFIFY.
Not until transgender men can have a baby should they be allowed to compete against women. And believe me, once they go thru that experience they’ll want to go right back to being as they were.
If a he-she really had the mind of a woman, s(he) would be aghast at taking unfair advantage over real women because women are generally more community oriented, less egotistical. Trans athletes KNOW they have male bodies doctored up superficially and they also know that gives them an unfair advantage since they never placed in men’s competitions yet end up on the podium for the same women’s events. They carry that unashamed “win at any cost” macho attitude instead of the female drive for “fairness” in all things. So even their brains don’t function female – they’re just men who like to look like women. (Along with their male drive to win, most retain their sexual attraction toward women too so they’re not just fake women they’re fake lesbians).
And still transgenders want to be treated like their dysphoria is one in the same as their biological bodies. Nature dealt them a unfair situation and they compound it all by resisting the whole truth about themselves and dump it on society,,,,,,as usual!!
So understandable that the Democrat party links itself to this carnival side show of cast offs, freaks, and degenerates. Great nations don’t get that way by these bottom feeders, but they do self-destruct by elevating and giving legitimacy to these self-proclaimed victims.
Actually what spurred the DQ. was a doctors visit in which Cece went to her doctor complaining of hair on her chin. when the doctor asked how far down the hair went, Cece replied… All the way down to my balls!