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  • 5/1/2025
Game Face shows the quest to self-realization of LGBT athletes and the acceptance in society. The film follows athletes | dG1fTEZ2LXFya25qcDg
Transcript
00:00playing devil's advocate with myself it's very very hard it's like a 24-hour thing because I
00:11know there's a possibility that people are gonna come after me they're not gonna understand me so
00:15I have to be ready it's like MMA be ready in Oklahoma they know me as the basketball player
00:23and they get a sense of who I am as a person through basketball but still feels like they
00:29don't know the real me here you have to have your game face on Valen Fox she is an MMA fighter not
00:39her undefeated record that has everyone talking she is a transgender female it's an advantage over a
00:46woman you know some people believe I have an automatic advantage but if they look into the
00:54science of it and what the hormones do to the body it dissipates some of society just doesn't get it
01:03yet and it's what we're trying to do right now is to inform people and let them know about transgender
01:07athletes why do you feel that that is important to come out to say I am gay for a while it was okay I
01:17can deal with people not knowing but now it eats at me to not be truthful to people I just I don't
01:24know how to go about it the first time an active male player in a major team sport has announced today
01:31that he is gay how's it going man good good I applaud you for having that strength to accept who you are
01:37because it took me a long time there's no love here in Miami for fellow cops I mean trans people can go out
01:46there being in MMA is so hard it's gonna take time to actually get to where we really wouldn't know each other
01:57it's like a feeling in your stomach just tell someone just tell everybody get it over with I'm a
02:17fighter fight until the fights done you fight until it's the end that's what I'm doing I'm gonna fight
02:22until the end I'm not gonna take the easy ride out

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