{"id":1266757,"date":"2022-02-02T19:23:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T00:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266757"},"modified":"2022-02-02T19:23:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T00:23:21","slug":"team-usa-runner-says-she-was-told-to-keep-her-mouth-shut-about-trans-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/team-usa-runner-says-she-was-told-to-keep-her-mouth-shut-about-trans-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA Runner Says She Was Told to &#039;Keep Her Mouth Shut&#039; About Trans Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fteam-usa-runner-says-she-was-told-to-keep-her-mouth-shut-about-trans-athletes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266757&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Top Team USA runner Cynthia Monteleone revealed that she was told to \u201ckeep her mouth shut\u201d about her qualms over transgender athletes and says, \u201cIt\u2019s the end of women\u2019s sports unless it stops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old Masters\u2019 Track and Field star, a world champion in the 400m, revealed that her team told her not to go public with her concerns about allowing men claiming to be transgender women to compete in women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Monteleone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10467563\/Team-USA-runner-says-told-mouth-shut-competing-trans-athlete.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that in the 2018 World Championships held in Malaga, Spain, she was set to race against a trans from Colombia. She worried that being pitted against a biological man was \u201cgrossly unfair,\u201d the <i>Daily Mail<\/i> wrote.<\/p>\n<p>While Monteleone still defeated the trans opponent that year, she said that she was warned \u201cfor your own safety, you should probably keep your mouth shut\u201d about her problems with transgender athletes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWords can\u2019t describe how I felt walking up to that starting line in Spain next to a biological male-bodied athlete,\u201d the Hawaii-based runner told Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn) during a Facebook live stream ahead of National Girls and Women in Sports Day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/02192320\/sen-marsha-blackburn-talks-with-witness-mary-engle-right-before-the-picture-id1238121995\" alt=\"Sen. Marsha Blackburn talks with witness Mary Engle, right, before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>(Bill O\u2019Leary-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe in keeping quiet about something that is so grossly unfair. With the policies that have been given, they are excluding female athletes \u2014 biological females,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Monteleone described how crestfallen her daughter was when she was forced to run against a biological man during her first official race for school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had to line up for her very first race, after training all year, along a biological male,\u201d Monteleone said, adding that the boy \u201cblew everybody away in the first 100 meters\u201d despite having trained for only two weeks before the school track meet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo she came in second,\u201d Monteleone explained. \u201cAnd you know what\u2019s at stake are things that are important: prize money, scholarships, awards.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShe deserved to win. She put in the work. But she had no chance because of the biological advantage of this male-bodied athlete,\u201d Monteleone said of her daughter\u2019s experience.<\/p>\n<p>Monteleone also accused Colombian trans runner Yanelle Del Mar Zape took a medal away from a real woman on Team USA in 2019 at a World Indoor Championship meet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve warned of this \u2014 this is the end of female sports,\u201d Monteleone said. \u201cUnfortunately, the current administration is putting a nail in the coffin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s have compassion for everyone,\u201d Monteleone continued. \u201cBut with the policies that have been given, they are excluding female athletes \u2014 biological females.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would encourage all females to stand up and think about that word brave. Have that courage and focus on what\u2019s at stake for the future,\u201d she concluded. \u201cThe bottom line is female-bodied athletes deserve their chance for accolades and awards and scholarships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monteleone and her daughter also provided a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwf.org\/save-womens-sports-cynthia-and-margaret\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> to the Independent Women\u2019s Forum and the Save Women\u2019s Sports group to advocate for tighter rules on trans athletes:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Team USA runner Cynthia Monteleone revealed that she was told to \u201ckeep her mouth shut\u201d about her qualms over transgender athletes and says, \u201cIt\u2019s the end of women\u2019s sports &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}