Transgender NCAA women's champ 'willing to sit down with' Trump amid calls for title to be rescinded
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CeCe Telfer won an NCAA title as a transgender woman in 2019, and recently said on CNN that the "anti-trans rhetoric has become louder, more in my face" ever since President Donald Trump was sworn in last month.
Earlier this month, the president signed an executive order that would prohibit transgender girls and women from competing against biological females in athletics. The Department of Education has also called for prior titles won by trans women to be stripped.
"Prior to this set-in-stone administration, I woke up every day and I faced adversaries when I leave my house. Now, I wake up every day and I have to make sure that I make it home alive," Telfer said, adding that "each of my identities" as a Black trans woman is a "target."
"It's really sad to see people go out of their way to make it known you don't belong here. But every day, I wake up, I decide to go out and live my life, (it) proves that I do belong here. And just existing is resilience.
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CeCe Telfer of Franklin Pierce wins the 400 meter hurdles during the Division II Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championships held at Javelina Stadium on May 25, 2019 in Kingsville, Texas. (Rudy Gonzalez/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)
"It's sad to see that one of the most powerful countries in the world would ostracize and de-humanize a group of people, a small group of athletes, too, but also as transgender women overall. I've done nothing wrong but try to be a good, contributing member of society," Telfer added. "I pay my taxes. I go to school. I try to leave the world better than when I came into it. And if the president