'It was like, I'm a trans nonbinary person and I'm on my way to the Olympics. That was the pitch to Netflix and that is like, not the story. But we didn't know that at that time,' Baker tells THR.
Yet, amid increasing interest in exploring the trans experience onscreen, the doc shatters its somewhat oversimplified hook.
First, because Baker never actually goes to the Olympics — a decision viewers are taken behind the scenes of in the film. Second, because the documentary is as much a story about how skateboarding and competing for more than a decade — eventually at the top of his sport — shaped every element of who Baker could be, publicly and privately.
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