In Money, Power Respect: How Women In Sports Are Shaping the Future of Feminism, journalist Macaela MacKenzie takes a look at how sports shape culture and why the fight for equality in sports—from equal pay, to the ownership gap, to the motherhood penalty—has big implications for us all.
In the abbreviated excerpt below, she tells the story of CeCé Telfer, the first out trans athlete to win an NCAA track and field title, and explores how the debate surrounding trans inclusion in sports affects women.
"Every single day when I wake up and put on my sports bra, the first thing I think about is that I could go onto the track and somebody could just take me out," says CeCé Telfer, a NCAA Division II champion runner. Telfer is transgender and is the first out trans woman to win an NCAA track and field title—a fact that became relevant to her running career when she began medically transitioning in 2017 and made her first appearance in competition as herself in 2018. Telfer just wanted to run—to do the thing that made her feel free and allowed her to explore her potential—but she found herself the subject of intense internet hate after Donald Trump Jr. tweeted an article referring to her as a "biological male" and claiming her success was a "grave injustice to so many young women."
The tweet instantly made Telfer a global target. |
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