50-year-old man competes against, shares changing room with teenage girls at Canadian swim meet: 'Girls were terrified'

A man old enough to be a grandfather competed against teenage girls and even shared a changing room with them at a recent swim meet in Canada.

On the weekend beginning December 1, swimmers gathered at the East Bayfield Community Centre in Barrie, Ontario, to compete in the Trojan Cup. The competition provides separate races for males and females based on age. The youngest age group is for competitors 8 and younger, and the oldest age group is 16 and older.

Perhaps because there does not appear to be an upper age limit, a 50-year-old man, born Nicholas Cepeda, was allowed to participate. However, Cepeda did not test whether he could still keep up with boys less than half his age. Instead, Cepeda, who now calls himself Melody Wiseheart, competed against girls as young as 16.

Even with the advantages of sex and age, Wiseheart still came up short. In nine races, the best he performed was a second-place finish in the women’s 1500m freestyle. The winner beat him by more than three seconds.

Swim Ontario, which co-sanctioned the event alongside Swimming Canada, issued a statement defending the organizations' policies as cultivating a "safe, welcoming, and inclusive" sport for "people of all ... genders":

In partnership with Swimming Canada, Swim Ontario has a robust system of policies, procedures and rules that support our member clubs in providing a competitive experience that is safe, welcoming and inclusive for all participants.

Swimming Canada and Swim Ontario believe swimming is for everyone... people of all shapes, sizes, genders, beliefs and backgrounds should have the opportunity to swim to the best of their ability... with the expectation that our registrants treat each other with respect and dignity, and keep our sport environment free from harassment and abuse.

Except in generalities, the statement did not reference the women and young girls who have been denied the "dignity and respect" and the "environment free from harassment and abuse" afforded to men like Wiseheart. And the offenses against them extend far beyond the pool's edge. Disturbing reports from Rebel News and other outlets indicate that Wiseheart used the women's locker room and perhaps even showered with children, forcing parents to build a makeshift towel barrier in the locker room to shield the young girls from Wiseheart's view — and to keep them from exposure to his penis.

"The girls were terrified," one unnamed parent told the Toronto Sun.

The Trojan Cup was not Wiseheart's first foray into competition with young girls. The Daily Mail reported that he may have begun participating in such events in 2019, and Fox News confirmed that he participated in a meet just two months ago against "swimmers aged 12-14."

In fact, Wiseheart — a professor of psychology at York University who is married to a woman — is a member of the Orangeville Otters Swim Club, regularly training alongside young girls. Without appearing on camera, one such young girl briefly spoke with Rebel News and confirmed that she had regularly seen Wiseheart in the girls' changing facilities "in the mornings." The girl referred to Wiseheart as "she."

According to Rebel News, the Otters have seemingly embraced a "trans-age" policy — calling it the "right to play as a child and not as an adult" — to keep grown adults like Wiseheart in the fold with young children. None of the parents at the swim club wanted to speak with the Rebel News journalists, two employees treated them with open hostility, and the police ultimately forced them off the property.

David Menzies of Rebel News attempted several times to report Wiseheart to the police for possibly violating statues 173.1 and 173.2 of the Criminal Code of Canada, which prohibit "an indecent act in a public place ... with intent to insult or offend any person" and "exposing ... genital organs to a person under the age of 16." So far, his pleas seem to have fallen on deaf ears.

Wiseheart ran away from Rebel News' cameras, refusing to answer any of Menzies' questions. He also did not respond to a request for comment from the Daily Mail.

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