Cece Telfer is a Jamaican-American athlete who is best known for being the first openly transgender woman to win an NCAA title. Telfer achieved the honor after she won the 400-meter hurdles event in June 2019. Telfer, initially, competed on the Franklin Pierce University men's track and field team in 2016 and 2017 before being a trans woman. Besides, she is quite active in the social media platform with around 6k followers on her Instagram account: @cecetelfer  

What is Cece Telfer famous for?

• Famous as a Jamaican-American athlete 
• Known for being the first openly transgender woman to win an NCAA title

Where is Cece Telfer from?

Cece Telfer was born in 1995 in Jamaica. Her birth name is Cece Telfer. She holds a Jamaican-American nationality. Her ethnicity is African-American. She is Christain by religion. Telfer was born as the son of Jamaican parents. She got raised by a single mother. She has two siblings. When she was 12, her family moved to Canada for her mother to get a better job.

Later, her family settled in New Hampshire where she completed her high school education. She decided to pursue her career as an athlete after being encouraged by her high school coach, Andrew Gamble. She later attended Franklin Pierce University located in New Hampshire.

Source: @outsports

Cece Telfer Career: Highlights

• Cece Telfer started her career as an athlete by competing on the Franklin Pierce University men's track and field team in 2016.
• She ranked 200th in the 400m among NCAA Division II athletes competing in that event in the men's division hurdles at the 36-inch men's division height.
• She also competed in 2017 and ranked 390th among NCAA Division II athletes competing in the 36-inch men's division.
• Then, she underwent her testosterone suppression treatment and started competing on the University's women's track and field team.
• In 2019, she got qualified for the NCAA Women's Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships, finishing at 3rd position in 60-meter hurdles and 7th position in the 200-meter dash in the women's division.
• She then competed on the NCAA Women's Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships where she ranked 6th in the 60-meter hurdles finals and got victorious in the 400-meter hurdles finals at the 30-inch women's division height
• With her growing popularity after getting a victory in the 400-meter hurdles, she appeared on Outside the Lines on ESPN on June 13, 2019, in which she praised her coaches for supporting her to do her best.
• Telfer then competed in the 2020 Olympic Trials in the 400-meter hurdles.
• Though she initially got selected for the 2020 Olympics but on June 25, 2021, breaking the heart of Telfer, it got announced that she is ruled ineligible to compete in the event as USA Track & Field determined that she did not meet the testosterone threshold for transgender athletes.

Is Cece Telfer married? Is she transgender?

Cece Telfer is not married yet. She has not dated anybody to date. Also, the fact that she seems to be much more focused on her career than her personal life. Besides in the recent 2020 Olympic Trials, she did not hesitate to participate in coming out as a public trans woman. Though she did not get selected, her ambition and passion inspired thousands of trans women hiding behind the walls. 

Also in another interview with Outsports, she denied that testosterone gave her an advantage over cisgender athletes, explaining that she'd been on hormone therapy for quite some time and that her testosterone levels were lower than the average woman's as a result. She got hyped after Donald Trump Jr. quoted an article title referring to Telfer as a "biological male," calling her recent competition wins a "grave injustice" against "young women" in mid-2019.

Cece Telfer Net Worth

Cece Telfer has quite good earnings from her professional career as an athlete. Having her career started in the year 2016, Telfer has managed to come a long way up becoming one of the popular trans woman athletes in her nearly 5-year career. Her source of income is surely her races including which she has a net worth estimated to be around $200k. 

Cece Telfer Height

Cece Telfer is a gorgeous trans woman with a well-maintained slim athletic body physique in her mid-20s. She stands tall with a height of 6ft 2inches (1.87m) while her body weighs around 61kg(134 lbs). She has black hair and a pair of black eyes.