Leo Baker is a seven-time X Games medalist, an Olympic hopeful, and the fifth-ranked street skateboarder in the world. Identifying as transgender, Leo has become an advocate for LGBTQ+ people and other minorities in the sport of skateboarding.
"In skateboarding there are still a lot of people who are still pretty homophobic," Leo said in a Nike video earlier this year. "Sometimes it's just because they're just like ignorant. They don't know any better." They've talked before about struggling to find sponsorships because they weren't perceived as "feminine enough," and the importance of creating safe and inclusive spaces for all skateboarders. "I just want people to recognise how pure and sweet it really is, to be accepted for exactly who you are."
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