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- Woman enough : how a boy became a woman and changed the world of sport / by Worley, Kristen,author.; Schneller, Johanna,author.;
"From a high-performance Canadian cyclist and transgender woman comes a powerful and inspiring story of self-realization and legal victory that upends our basic assumptions about sexual identity. Kristen Worley, a world-class cyclist, aspired to compete in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Having begun her transition in 1998, she became the first athlete in the world to submit to the International Olympic Committee's Stockholm Consensus, a gender verification process that would allow her to engage in sport as the person she knew she was meant to be. An all-male jury determined she fit their biological criteria. Three decades earlier, Kristen was Chris, a male baby adopted by an upper-middle-class Toronto family. 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 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. Sport had always been her means of escape, and now she wanted to compete for her country and herself. Though she passed the hurdle of gender verification, the IOC, international and local cycling associations and the World Anti-Doping Agency insisted that transitioned male-to-female athletes should not receive testosterone supplements. They viewed such supplements as performance-enhancing, failing to recognize that women produce varying levels of the hormone too. Kristen's transitioned body had stopped producing any hormones at all -- she needed hormone support to stay healthy and to compete. So Kristen fought back on behalf of all female athletes. She filed a complaint against the IOC and the other sports bodies standing in her way with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. And she won. Born to Be Kristen 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"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Worley, Kristen.; Women cyclists; Transgender athletes; Gender identity in sports.; Sports;
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- Sugar Sugar Rune: S1. by Ihata, Juri,actor.; Matsumoto, Marika,actor.; Synergetic Distribution (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Juri Ihata, Marika MatsumotoOriginally produced by Synergetic Distribution in 2005.Two best friends and polar opposites must compete to win the throne of the future queen. Vanilla and Chocolate go to Earth to win the hearts of boys. Whoever has collected the most by the end of the competition is crowned queen.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.;
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- Josee, the Tiger and the Fish. by Inudô, Isshin,film director.; Ikewaki, Chizuru,actor.; Arai, Hirofumi,actor.; Ueno, Juri,actor.; Tsumabuki, Satoshi,actor.; Cineverse (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Chizuru Ikewaki, Hirofumi Arai, Juri Ueno, Satoshi TsumabukiOriginally produced by Cineverse in 2004.Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah jong parlor. Lately customers in the parlor have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. One day, the baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guardrail. The old lady asks Tsuneo to look into the carriage, where he finds a young woman clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl who calls herself 'Josée.' Her real name is Kumiko, and she is unable to walk, so her grandmother takes her out early every morning in the old baby carriage. Tsuneo begins to fall under the spell of the young woman's unusual charm, and he grows more and more attracted to her in this offbeat love story of artless purity in collision with the real world.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Romance.; Motion pictures--Japan.; Motion pictures--Asia.;
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- Close. by Dhont, Lukas,film director.; Dambrine, Eden,actor.; De Waele, Gustav,actor.; Janssens, Kevin,actor.; Drucker, Léa,actor.; Dequenne, Émilie,actor.; Sphere Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele, Kevin Janssens, Léa Drucker, Émilie DequenneOriginally produced by Sphere Films in 2022.Leo and Remi are two thirteen-year-old best friends, whose seemingly unbreakable bond is suddenly, tragically torn apart. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Lukas Dhont's second film is an emotionally transformative and unforgettable portrait of the intersection of friendship and love, identity and independence, and heartbreak and healing.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Queer cinema.; Coming-of-age films.; Motion pictures--Europe.;
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- Green Border. by Holland, Agnieszka,film director.; Djanati, Behi,actor.; Altawil, Jalal,actor.; Ostaszewska, Maja,actor.; Wlosok, Tomasz,actor.; Kino Lorber (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Behi Djanati Atai, Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Tomasz WlosokOriginally produced by Kino Lorber in 2023.In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so-called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa are lured by government propaganda promising easy passage to the European Union. Unable to cross into Europe and unable to turn back, they find themselves trapped in a rapidly escalating geopolitical stand-off. An unflinching depiction of the migrant crisis captured in stark black-and-white, this riveting film explores the intractable issue from multiple perspectives: a Syrian family fleeing ISIS caught between cruel border guards in both countries; young guards instructed to brutalize and reject the migrants; and activists who aid the refugees at great personal risk.Thirty years after Europa Europa, three-time Oscar® nominee Agnieszka Holland brings a masterful eye for realism and deep compassion to this blistering critique of a humanitarian calamity that continues to unfold. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, GREEN BORDER is a poignant and essential work of cinema that opens our eyes and speaks to the heart, challenging viewers to reflect on the moral choices that fall to ordinary people every day.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.;
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