‘I Couldn’t Keep Putting Myself on Hold.’ In Losing Out on His Shot at the Tokyo Olympics, Skateboarder Leo Baker Found Himself

6:30am PDT - July 15th, 2021    elliot page - Time

“When I was very young, I was like, ‘oh, I’m a boy. I just am,’” Leo Baker recalls of his childhood. For years, Baker tells TIME, he put questions about his gender on hold as he grew a successful career as a skateboarder, going on to win a series of internati…