# Michelle Telfer

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{{short description|Australian artistic gymnast}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2011}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name        = Michelle Telfer
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| nationality = Australian
| sport       = Gymnastics
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| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1974|1|8|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [Perth](/source/Perth)<ref>https://www.rch.org.au/rch/about-us/executive/</ref>
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| medaltemplates =
 {{Medal|Sport | Gymnastics}}
{{Medal|Country | {{AUS}}}}
{{Medal|Competition|[Commonwealth Games](/source/Commonwealth_Games)}}
{{Medal|Silver|[1990 Auckland](/source/1990_Commonwealth_Games)| Women's Team}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[1990 Auckland](/source/1990_Commonwealth_Games)| Women's Uneven Bars}}
}}

'''Michelle Marian Telfer''' (born 8 January 1974) is an Australian [paediatrician](/source/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](/source/gymnast) who represented Australia at the [1992 Summer Olympics](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Western_Australian_Institute_of_Sport) elite squad, training full-time. Telfer went on to represent [Australia](/source/Australia) in the [Junior Pacific Alliance Competition](/source/Junior_Pacific_Alliance_Competition) in [Colorado Springs](/source/Colorado_Springs%2C_Colorado) and the [Gymnastics World Championships](/source/Gymnastics_World_Championships) in [West Germany](/source/Germany) in 1989.

In 1990, Telfer was selected for the [Commonwealth Games](/source/Commonwealth_Games) in [New Zealand](/source/New_Zealand), receiving a bronze medal on bars, which was the first medal achieved by a [WAIS](/source/Western_Australian_Institute_of_Sport) 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](/source/1992_Summer_Olympics) in [Barcelona](/source/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](/source/University_of_Western_Australia) and became a paediatrician. She is now an associate professor in adolescent medicine at the [Royal Children's Hospital](/source/Royal_Children's_Hospital) in [Melbourne](/source/Melbourne).

Prior to running the gender services, she had not met a [trans child](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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>
|}

==References==
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Category:1974 births
Category:Living people
Category:Australian female artistic gymnasts
Category:Gymnasts at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
Category:Western Australian Institute of Sport alumni
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists in gymnastics
Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in gymnastics
Category:Commonwealth Games gymnasts for Australia
Category:Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
Category:Sportswomen from Western Australia
Category:20th-century Australian sportswomen

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