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Make it count : my fight to become the first transgender Olympic runner
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Published [2024] by Grand Central Publishing, Hatchett Book Group, New York
ISBN 9781538756249
Bib Id 1454776
Copyright 2024
Edition First edition.
Description 295 pages ; 24 cm
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9781538756249 (hardcover) $30.00
1538756242
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B Telfer
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Make it count : my fight to become the first transgender Olympic runner
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First edition.
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[2024] by Grand Central Publishing, Hatchett Book Group, New York :
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©2024
Description
295 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"CeČ 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. 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." --
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