WATCH: Transgender Track Champion Claims HE Has the Disadvantage Against WOMEN

. . .Telfer — formerly known as Craig — as recently as January 2018 ran with the Division II school’s men’s track & field team. Telfer started going by the name CeCe while competing with the men before transitioning to women’s competition. Telfer is the New Hampshire school’s first women’s track & field champion. . .

Telfer just told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” that “if anything, me competing against cisgender females is a disadvantage”:

“My body is going through so many medical implications … It’s going through biochemistry changes. So, being on hormone replacement therapy [results in] muscle depletion … your muscles are deteriorating. You lose a lot of strength because testosterone is where you get your strength, your agility. So I have to work twice as hard to keep that strength, and if I slack a day, that’s like three days set behind. So … I have to keep up all my workouts … I can’t drink … I can’t eat unhealthy, or else it’s gonna impact me harder.”

"If anything, me competing against cisgender females is a disadvantage.."@FPUathletics track star CeCe Telfer talks about the physical challenges she faces while competing as a transgender woman. pic.twitter.com/9VhlOVA70V

— Outside The Lines (@OTLonESPN) June 13, 2019

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The NCAA has had a policy for transgender athletes for years. It is legal under NCAA bylaws for a biological male to compete in the women’s division if that male has suppressed his testosterone levels for one year.

A guidance document on the issue published by the NCAA took the stance that it is not accurate to assume that a male who has transitioned to become a transgender female has an unfair advantage over a biological woman, saying “it is important not to overgeneralize.”

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