The upcoming NCAA women’s track and field championships will feature an impressive competitor. CeCe Telfer has been dominating the circuit, achieving the fastest time of the year in the 200-meter dash and a third place ranking nationwide in the hurdles. The only problem is that CeCe Telfer is a dude.
Telfer, in fact, is a dude who identified as a dude until just now. It wasn’t until his senior year that he had his epiphany, realizing that he has been a girl all this time, and making the heroic decision to leave the men’s league and instead compete against a field of athletes who happen to have 20% less muscle mass in their legs, as well as smaller fast-twitch muscle fibers, smaller lungs, smaller hearts, shorter legs, much more estrogen and much less testosterone, and a smaller capacity to produce oxygen when they exert themselves. Courageously, Mr. Telfer has chosen to race against people who have literally dozens of immutable biological disadvantages in comparison to himself.
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