Woman Enough: How a Boy Became a Woman and Changed the World of Sport

A powerful and inspiring story of self-realization and legal victory that upends our basic assumptions about sexual identity.

In 1966, a male baby, Chris, was adopted by an upper-middle-class Toronto couple. 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 especially cycling—helped him survive what he would eventually understand to be a profound disconnect between his anatomical sexual ide...