Stay On Board: The Leo Baker Story traces an Olympic skater's gender journey

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Stay On Board: The Leo Baker Story traces an Olympic skater's gender journey
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A documentary examines the professional risks Baker faced in order to embrace his personal truth

Institutional divisions between male and female skateboarders, and the sponsorships that allowed Leo to skate to support his struggling family from a very young age, were capitalistic forces incentivizing him to embrace femininity for the sake of financial security and professional fulfillment.

This unintentionally carries an implication that non-binary and transgender identities are linguistically interchangeable—a complex idea that isn’t sufficiently examined—so even though Leo accepts they/them pronouns, he is not explicitly identified as non-binary in the film, so the conflation of the concepts fails to adequately explore the intersection of non-binary identity and social transition.

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