{{short description|Australian artistic gymnast}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2011}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Michelle Telfer | birth_name = | image = | caption = | nationality = Australian | sport = Gymnastics | event = | club = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|1|8|df=yes}} | birth_place = Perth<ref>https://www.rch.org.au/rch/about-us/executive/</ref> | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport | Gymnastics}} {{Medal|Country | {{AUS}}}} {{Medal|Competition|Commonwealth Games}} {{Medal|Silver|1990 Auckland| Women's Team}} {{Medal|Bronze|1990 Auckland| Women's Uneven Bars}} }}
'''Michelle Marian Telfer''' (born 8 January 1974) is an Australian paediatrician<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tomazin |first=Farrah |date=2020-04-18 |title=Staying on her feet: how Michelle Telfer won gender clinic battle |url=https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/staying-on-her-feet-how-michelle-telfer-won-gender-clinic-battle-20200416-p54kjf.html |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}</ref> and a former gymnast who represented Australia at the 1992 Summer Olympics.<ref>[http://www.wais.org.au/SiteTemplate-WAIS/upload/WAIS/0A292AF7164E4CD2B5D312B16267281F.pdf ''Without Compromise'' magazine, Spring 2002, Issue 12] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070830065039/http://www.wais.org.au/SiteTemplate-WAIS/upload/WAIS/0A292AF7164E4CD2B5D312B16267281F.pdf |date=30 August 2007 }}</ref>
==Gymnastics career== Liz Chetkovich first identified Telfer's talent in 1981 at the age of seven. In 1988, at the age of 14, Telfer was chosen to join the WAIS elite squad, training full-time. Telfer went on to represent Australia in the Junior Pacific Alliance Competition in Colorado Springs and the Gymnastics World Championships in West Germany in 1989.
In 1990, Telfer was selected for the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand, receiving a bronze medal on bars, which was the first medal achieved by a WAIS gymnast at a Commonwealth Games. In that same year, she won the Junior Sports Star of the Year Award in 1990 and 1991.
Telfer represented Australia at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Telfer retired from gymnastics at the age of 18.
==Medical career== After the 1992 Olympic Games, Telfer studied medicine at the University of Western Australia and became a paediatrician. She is now an associate professor in adolescent medicine at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne.
Prior to running the gender services, she had not met a trans child until being tasked to taking over care for trans children.<ref name=":0">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT6vQwZYTp0 |title=Treating Australia's trans kids made this doctor a 'target' {{!}} Australian Story |date=2021-05-24 |last=ABC News In-depth |access-date=2025-06-29 |via=YouTube}}</ref> Her third patient, Georgie Stone, became an advocate for transgender rights.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sullivan |first=Laura |date=2018-03-08 |title=Meet Georgie Stone |url=https://www.rchfoundation.org.au/2018/03/meet-georgie-stone/ |access-date=2025-06-29 |website=The Royal Children's Hospital Foundation |language=en-AU}}</ref> Telfer was lead author of the Australian Standards of Care and treatment guidelines for trans and gender diverse children and adolescents.<ref name="a737">{{cite journal | last1=Telfer | first1=Michelle M. | last2=Pang | first2=Ken | last3=Pace | first3=Carmen | last4=Tollit | first4=Michelle | title=The Creation of the Australian Standards of Care and Treatment Guidelines for Trans and Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents | journal=Journal of Adolescent Health | volume=62 | issue=2 | year=2018 | issn=1054-139X | doi=10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.11.100 | pages=S49–S50}}</ref>
She was added to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2022 for her medical career.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Associate Professor Michelle Telfer |url=https://www.vic.gov.au/associate-professor-michelle-telfer |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=State Government of Victoria |language=en-AU}}</ref>
== Personal life == Telfer is married to Angus Grant. They have two children.<ref name=":0" />
== Filmography ==
=== Film === {| class="wikitable sortable" !Year !Title !Role !Notes ! class="unsortable" |{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}} |- |2022 |''The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone'' |Herself |Documentary short |<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone - About |url=https://dreamlifefilm.com/about |access-date=9 July 2022}}</ref> |- |}
=== Television === {| class="wikitable sortable" !Year !Title !Role !Notes ! class="unsortable" |{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}} |- |2016 |''Australian Story'' |Herself |Episode: About A Girl |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-08-15 |title=About A Girl {{!}} Georgie Stone |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-16/about-a-girl/7733434 |access-date=2025-06-29 |website=www.abc.net.au |language=en-AU}}</ref> |}
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