Transgender NCAA track star CeCe Telfer is defiant over President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender athletes and insists that all previous records are permanent and cannot be erased because “that’s now how progressiveness works.”
Appearing on CNN on Monday, Telfer, a member of the Franklin Pierce University women’s college track team, was asked how he feels about the Trump administration’s stance that transgender records and titles should be removed from the record books. But Telfer insisted that his records can’t be removed.
“If somebody’s truly working or a part of the Department of Education, they would be smart and educated enough to know that something like that is not, that’s not how history works, and that’s not how the direction of progressiveness works. And you can’t take back history,” he said.
CeCe Telfer — the first man to cheat his way to a women’s NCAA title in 2019 — explains he can’t be stripped of his title because “that's not how the direction of progressiveness works.”
— WomenAreReal (@WomenAreReals) February 18, 2025
Women beg to differ. You came for our sports & our spaces and we are fighting back hard. pic.twitter.com/wcDGqwqZl8
Telfer spent several seasons tearing through his female opponents and racking up titles. As a senior, he became the school’s top athlete.
In 2019, the runner insisted he had no physical advantages from being born a male.
Many found Telfer’s claim that “progressiveness” would not allow his titles to be stripped from the record books.
He’s saying the quiet part out loud- progressive politics works to erase women.
— Mary Liggio Ross 🟣⚪️🟡 (@MaryRoss815) February 18, 2025
I STOLE IT SO IT'S MINE FOREVER NOW
— Vanessa McCulloch (@NeedaGin) February 18, 2025
This cheat hates women.
— MsFab (@MsFab123) February 18, 2025
Because you were worthless in men's sports. Which is what you are. ...not were.
— boone (@bobo_syd) February 18, 2025
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