Outsports called CeCe Telfer as "female athlete of the year". Few seconds of research are showing how unfair it is to women

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[–]purrvana 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Scrolling through there's a little article on the right that says "Person of the year" and it's a woman. So their female of the year is a man, their male of the year is a man, and their person of the year is a woman, lol. Clown world.

[–]ColoredTwice[S] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Someone should make a topic on big site about this to raise awareness on how unfair it is. Maybe someone collect data and post on Ovarit, WomenAreHuman, etc. More people should see the numbers!

I did not realized until now that 390th youth male can compete with top 8 best professional females in world and beats without a chance best female youth in the world. It is infuriating.

Outsport's shameless article: https://archive.is/4B1lG

[–]MarkTwainiac 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The author of that piece is DawnDonDawnDon Ennis, a middle-aged AGP TIM whose backstory is eye-opening even for a TRA. Ennis - who after his wife died of cancer began claiming to have breastfed one of his children, and has posted detailed info about his pubescent daughter's period on social media - is a grifter who says that taking the female sex hormone estrogen causes men's "entire DNA" to change so they are now 100% female.

Also, Telfer constantly claims that as a result of taking testosterone-reducing drugs, he is actually the one at a physical disadvantage when competing with female athletes. But in a podcast with Ennis recorded in late 2019, Telfer claimed that the female athletes good enough to make it to top level of the women's NCAA Division 2 that he competed in "are the ones who should be tested." Coz, he implied, any female athlete capable of competing with Telfer must either be doping on T or another banned PED, or perhaps is a male with a DSD or just an ordinary bloke pulling a fast one.

I did not realized until now that 390th youth male can compete with top 8 best professional females in world and beats without a chance best female youth in the world. It is infuriating.

For the sake of accuracy: Telfer didn't beat the top 8 professional females in the world or the best female youth in the world. Telfer won the 400 m women's hurdles in the USA's NCAA Division 2 nationals in 2019. All the athletes involved were amateur, not professional; in fact, athletes' "amateurism" is a key principle of the NCAA, and a much-contested one. Moreover, the NCAA is a league for athletes in US college/university sports, and it has several divisions. NCAA Division 2 national athletes are the best USA collegiate athletes in their particular sport/event in their particular NCAA division - they are not the best in the world.

[–]ColoredTwice[S] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

By "beat them" - I meant beat their time. First place in youth Olympic games in 2018 in 400m female hurdles running had time 58.38 seconds and Telfer had time 57.33 seconds in 2019, with 56.8 or near that in 2020, but outside of college.

Obviously he never competed them directly.

In tourney you named, where he became national champion - next places were: 59.21; 59.49; 60.29 - everyone very close, and he 2.5 seconds ahead of them.

[–]MarkTwainiac 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you for clarifying. I am sorry I misunderstood. For the record, in sports - and sports reporting and record keeping - beating other athletes' time is very different from beating them.

I don't get the point of comparing Telfer's times in the 400 m hurdles in the nationals of the D2 NCAA - a league in which nearly all if not all the competitors are over 18, and many are in their 20s - to the times in same event in the Youth Olympics, which is for athletes age 15-18.

It's quite common for older athletes to beat the times of younger teenage athletes, which is why there is a Youth Olympics and a regular Olympics in the first place, and why HS athletes don't compete against college/uni athletes.

Telfer was 21 or 22 when he won the NCAA D2 national 400m women's hurdles. Given that he's male, and the fact that males typically continue gaining athletic strength, speed and prowess (and sometimes even in height) after age 18, it's not surprising he beat the times of female HS-age hurdlers who were the best in the world for their particular age group. Most male bodies change a lot during their 20s, and barring injuries, male athletes in many sports only get better and faster in their 20s. Same goes for many female athletes particularly in track & field.

[–]BEB 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This type of blatant nonsense peak trans the masses, so I hope they keep going.