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Make it count : my fight to become the first transgender Olympic runner  Cover Image Book Book

Make it count : my fight to become the first transgender Olympic runner / CeCé Telfer.

Telfer, CeCé, (author.).

Summary:

"CeCé Telfer is a warrior. The first openly transgender woman to win an NCAA championship, she has contended with transphobia on and off the track since childhood. Now, she stands at the crossroads of a national and international conversation about equity in sports, forced to advocate for her personhood and rights at every turn. After spending years training for the 2024 Olympics, Telfer has been sidelined and silenced more times than she can count. But she's never been good at taking no for an answer. Make it Count is Telfer's raw and inspiring story. From coming of age in Jamaica, where she grew up hearing a constant barrage of slurs, to beginning her new life in Toronto and then New Hampshire, where she realized what running could offer her, to living in the backseat of her car while searching for a coach, to Mexico, where she trained for the US Trials, this book follows the arc of Telfer's Olympic dream. This is the story of running on what feels like the edge of a knife, of what it means to compete when you're not just an athlete but treated like a walking controversy. But it's also the story of resilience and athleticism, of a runner who found a clarity in her sport that otherwise eluded her -- a sense of being simply alive on this earth, a human moving through space. Finally, herself"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781538756249 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 295 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2024.
Subject: Telfer, CeCé.
Olympic athletes > United States > Biography.
Track and field athletes > United States > Biography.
Transgender athletes > United States > Biography.
Transgender women > United States > Biography.
Women runners > United States > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Innisfil Public Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Stroud Branch.

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