Displaying 1 of 1 2019 Format: Book Author: Worley, Kristen, author Title: Woman enough : how a boy became a woman & changed the world of sport / Kristen Worley & Johanna Schneller. Publisher, Date: Toronto : Random House Canada, [2019] Description: xvi, 239 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects: Worley, Kristen Women cyclists -- Canada -- Biography Transgender athletes -- Canada -- Biography Gender identity in sports Sports -- Rules -- Social aspects Genre: Autobiographies Other Author: Schneller, Johanna, author Notes: Includes index. ISBN: 9780735273009 (hardcover) System Availability: 7 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 7 Control Number: 1730204 Call Number: 796.6092 Course Reserves: 0 # Local items in: 7 # System items in: 7 Place Request Please select and request a specific volume by clicking one of the icons in the 'Where is it?' section below. Add to My List Share Expand All | Collapse All Where is it? Summary A powerful and inspiring story of self-realization and legal victory that upends our basic assumptions about sexual identity. In 1966, a male baby, Chris, was adopted by an upper-middle-class Toronto couple. From early childhood, Chris felt ill-at-ease as a boy and like an outsider in his conservative family. An obsession with sports--running, waterskiing and especially cycling--helped him survive what he would eventually understand to be a profound disconnect between his anatomical sexual identity and his gender identity. In his twenties, with the support of newfound friends and family and the medical community, Chris became Kristen. Chris had been a world-class cyclist, and now Kristen wanted to compete for her country and herself in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She became the first athlete in the world to submit to the International Olympic Committee's gender verification process, the Stockholm Consensus. An all-male jury determined she fit their biological criteria--but the IOC ultimately objected to her use of testosterone supplements. They, and other sports bodies, regard them as performance enhancing, when in fact all transitioned female athletes need the hormone to stay healthy and to compete. So Kristen filed a complaint against the sports bodies standing in her way with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. And she won. Woman Enough is the account of a human rights battle with global repercussions for the world of sport; it's a challenge to rethink fixed ideas about gender; and it's the extraordinary story of a boy who was rejected for who he wasn't, and who fought back until she found out who she is. Suggestions and more Map It Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
