Cece Telfer won an NCAA title as a transgender woman in 2019, and recently said in CNN that “Anti-Trans rhetoric has become stronger, more in my face” since President Donald Trump was sworn last month.
Earlier this month, the president signed an executive order that would prohibit transgender girls and women from competing against biological women in athletics. The Department of Education has also requested that the previous titles won by Trans Women will be stripped.
“Before this established administration, I woke up every day and faced the adversaries when I leave my house. Now, I wake up every day and I have to make sure I got home alive,” Telfer said, add that ” Each of my identities “as a black trans woman is a” objective. ”
“It is really sad to see people get out of their way to let him know that you do not belong here. But every day, I wake up, I decide to go out and live my life, he shows that I do belong here. And only exist is resilience.
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Cece Telfer of Franklin Pierce wins the 400 -meter obstacles during the male and female athletics championships of Division II held at the Javelina Stadium on May 25, 2019 in Kingsville, Texas. (Photos of Rudy González/NCAA through Getty Images)
“It is sad to see that one of the most powerful countries in the world would condemn and dehumanize a group of people, a small group of athletes, but also as transgender women in general. I have not done anything bad to try to try to be a good member and taxpayer of society, “added Telfer. “I pay my taxes. I go to school. I try to leave the world better than when I entered it. And if the president does not see us, we will be seen and known with goodness and love, because that is all we have to offer “
As the Trump administration continues to fight to keep biological males out of women’s sports, Telfer is “willing to sit” with Trump’s own “Own about her order and transgender in sports.
“I am willing to sit with the IOC, the USATF, the NCAA, with any of my international federations, even the Trump administration, Trump himself, if he wants to sit with me and talk and have a human conversation and see me. That opportunity,” Telfer said.
Cece Telfer attends “Everybody Laves Corey” by Corey O’Brien in The Comedy Chateau on November 2, 2023 in North Hollywood, California. (Victoria Sirakova/Getty images for Corey O’Brien)
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“I need an explanation of why you want He wants a team to accompany and see my daily life and what happened as a transgender athlete, all that is why. “
Telfer added that despite the perceived increase in Anti-Trans rhetoric, and they ask them titles won by trans athletes to be revoked, the title won Telfer is even more claimed “, because it makes me feel not only the story made in that will stay In books and it will be reminded that policies and orders are not forever, but our resistance is. “
“If someone really is part of the education department, it would be intelligent and educated enough to know that something like that is not how history works, and this is not how the direction of progressivity works. You cannot recover the story “Telfer said, adding that the NCAA was” pressured “to change its rules and follow its example with Trump’s order.
“They were on the right side of the story, I don’t know what happened,” Telfer added.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, signs the executive order of No Men In Women’s Sports in the East room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 5, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP)
Telfer was inevitable to compete in the US Olympic trials. In 2021, two years after taking home the title of the 400 m obstacles of division II of 2019.
