Only a few cheaters
CeCe Telfer is hoping to qualify for the United States Olympic trials, which begin June 18 in Eugene, Ore. The asphalt road is her primary training facility.
In 2019, Telfer became the first openly transgender woman to win an N.C.A.A. title; she was a fifth-year senior at Franklin Pierce University, a Division II school in Rindge, N.H. Now she is among a handful of transgender women seeking to reach the Tokyo Games, which begin in late July.
In other words in 2019 Telfer stole an N.C.A.A. title from a woman, and now he hopes to steal a place at the Tokyo Games from a woman.
Recent clashes over transgender athletes have made it more important for Telfer to capitalize on her opportunity for elite competition.
While people are still pretending it’s fair.
“It’s important for me to do it for these kids,” Telfer, 26, said while sitting on the back porch of her college psychologist’s house. “It’s important for me to do it for my people — whether it be women, Black people, transgender people, L.G.B.T.Q. people — anybody who is scrutinized and oppressed.”
Whether it be women? Really? But women are the people he’s doing his best to cheat.
At the start of the 2018-19 school year, Telfer said, she walked into her coach’s office with a friend and asked to compete with other women. She expected the coach to balk. Instead, she recalled, he responded: “Finally.”
Telfer was overcome with emotion.
Her excitement, she said, was tempered by a backlash. Parents of Telfer’s competitors objected, saying she had an athletic advantage.
There’s a reason for that. He does have an advantage. It’s called being male.
Citing supposed competitive advantages, but little evidence that transgender athletes were dominating women’s sports, lawmakers in more than 30 states have introduced bills aimed at barring transgender women and girls from competing on teams that match their gender identity.
Bolding mine. These fuckers. Of course they’re not “dominating” all of women’s sports (yet): this has only just gotten started. It doesn’t matter that they’re not dominating all of it: just a little cheating is still cheating.
Of course the coach was happy. Franklin Pierce College is a small school in rural southern New Hampshire; even in New England most people barely know it exists. Now Telfer comes along, and the coach is imagining all the concomitant victories and attention and money, and he’s ecstatic.
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This sounds like the beginning of the “athletic arms race” envisioned by YNNB in a guest post. Colleges that want to have winning teams in certain women’s sports will start recruiting men-who-claim-to-be-women. I would not be terribly surprised to hear of back-room hush-hush recruiting of mediocre men, encouraging them to discover their inner woman, with a big scholarship and other perks dangled as incentive.
Sackbut, another option – recruiting fit and healthy trans women and encouraging them to discover their inner athlete. They are already committed to the fraud, and taking up running is probably easier than taking up womanning.
Yes, it’s a cheap rhetorical trick alright. ‘Competitive advantage’ is not the same thing as ‘dominance in sports’ – showing the nonexistence of one does not mean the other also does not exist. Simple, right? And yet a vast number of otherwise clear-thinking sceptics have been taken in by it. It’s ridiculous.
“Who are they writing about all over this country and what are they saying? Are they saying: ‘Are there any [men] in [women’s sports]?’ No, of course not, they’re saying: ‘How many [men] are there in [women’s sports]?”
This modified quote from The Manchurian Candidate comes to mind. Except they aren’t talking about “men”, they’ve completely accepted that these athletes are women, and are only concerned about numbers and advantages.