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CeCe Telfer (Craig Telfer) a Jamaican-American transgender athlete. Back in 2019, Telfer won the NCAA title and got to be the first openly transgender woman to win an NCAA title.
CeCe Telfer Age
Telfer was born in Jamaica raised in Canada. Her age and date of birth are publicly unavailable. This section will be updated as soon as this information is available.
CeCe Telfer Family
Telfer was born the youngest of three children and got raised by a single momother. At the age of 12 family relocated, their mother worked as a traveling nurse, and they relocated from house to house, school to school Telfer tot the time landed in Lebanon, New Hampshire while was joining into her junior year of high school.
CeCe Telfer Education
While stiil in high school, she earned a job at the town’s famous ice cream parlor and joined the track and field team. Her mother then got another job in New York her senior year. Telfer lived behind, residing alone and working after school to pay rent.
She joined Franklin Pierce University, where she worked as a member of the Franklin Pierce men’s track and field team back in 2016 and 2017 before he got medically transition. She competed in the men’s division as recently as of January 2018 before she underwent the gender reassignment surgery prior to the 2019 season.
Telfer along with Franklin Pierce the athletics administrators were meticulous as they go theoruhg NCAA guidelines for transgender student-athlete participation, making her eligibility in women’s track for the final indoor and outdoor seasons of her collegiate career.
She won the women’s 400-meter hurdles national named at the 2019 NCAA Division II Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships back on May 25 in Kingsville, Texas.
CeCe Telfer Olympics
Telfer got ruled ineligible to compete in the women’s 400-meter hurdles at the U.S. Olympic trials for having not met the World Athletics eligibility regulations for certain women’s events.
Back in 2019 the World Athletics released new guidelines that cut off the international women’s events between 400 meters and a mile to athletes whose testosterone levels of 5 nonomoles per liter (nmol/L) or more, according to ESPN.
For the event, an athlete has to be below the 5 nmol/L threshold for 12 months. On the guidelines, World Athletics says athletes can as well lower their testosterone level using an oral contraceptive pill, a monthly injection of a hormone therapy drug or by surgery to remove their testicles.
Her manager, David McFarland, shared that Telfer would respect the decision. He said: “CeCe has turned her focus towards the future and is continuing to train. She will compete on the national — and world — stage again soon.”
USATF shared in a statement: “Following notification from World Athletics on June 17 that the conditions had not yet been met, USATF provided CeCe with the eligibility requirements and, along with World Athletics, the opportunity to demonstrate her eligibility so that she could compete at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials. According to subsequent notification to CeCe from World Athletics on June 22, she has not been able to demonstrate her eligibility.”
USATF as well shared in a statement that “strongly supports inclusivity and providing a clear path to participation in the sport for all, while also maintaining competitive fairness.”
“If CeCe meets the conditions for transgender athlete participation in the future, we wholeheartedly back her participation in international events as a member of Team USATF,” the statement said.
CeCe Telfer Transition
Telfer medically transitioned included over 12 months of testosterone suppression along with daily estrogen pills, regular doctor exams and bloodwork. Before her medically transitioning, she had been a member of the Franklin Pierce men’s track team for three years.
CeCe Telfer Surgery
Telfer had her gender reassignment surgery. as per the guidelines by the World Athletics, athletes are allowed to lower their testosterone level using an oral contraceptive pill, a monthly injection of a hormone therapy drug or by surgery to remove their testicles.
CeCe Telfer Height and Weight
She stands tall at a height of 6 feet 2 inches and has an average body weight.