Erik/Erika Schinegger - the ski sensation that became media sensation. As Erika she was celebrated. As newly discovered Erik repudiated and accused of fraud. A true story about the injustice of nature, the taboo topics in Austria in the 1970s.—Ulf Kjell Gür
Follows the true story of Erica/Erik Schinegger, a women's world champion skier in the 1970s, who was raised as a girl but faced a shocking change when a newly introduced test said she was genetically a man. It looked like the end of her career - at 19. And then there was a huge and agonising decision about what to do next, personally and in competition.