Question d'équilibre : Le skate selon Leo Baker

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Le légendaire skateboarder Leo Baker raconte dans le détail comment il est parvenu au sommet, ainsi que la pression énorme qui le forçait à cacher son identité de genre.

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00:30Lee, for years, was the star of women's skating

00:34It feels like you're put in this category

00:36Okay, like the ladies category

00:38And you're like, no, we're just skateboarders

00:39It would be really special for a person like me

00:42Just to be visibly queer on such a global scale

00:44I think that they're totally capable of doing it

00:47The question is, is like, their heart in it

00:50Being trans, I feel really out of place

00:56He has to choose between being his authentic self

01:01And his career that he's worked so hard for

01:03Everyone's like, it's the Olympics

01:05It's just one year

01:06If I wait one more year, there might not be any more Leo

01:10No choice will ever be harder than this one

01:13I've been so influenced by sponsors for so many years

01:18What I really want right now is just focus on skating

01:21Because I don't know what's going to happen

01:23Are you afraid of some sort of backlash?

01:51And that's how I TR flags up

01:52Are you afraid of some sort of protests

01:54or

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