Toronto-based disabled and LGBTQ advocate Spencer West, 44, is a motivational speaker with the goods to back that title up.

He’s been everything from a high school cheerleader to a climber of Mount Kilimanjaro to a Demi Lovato opening act.

Born in Rock Springs, Wyo., with a genetic diseases called sacral agenesis, which caused his spine and legs to not work properly, West had his legs amputated to the knees when he was three years old.

After prosthetics did not work, doctors removed his legs below his pelvis at age five and West learned to move around using his hands and a wheelchair.

“My parents didn’t treat me any differently,” said West, who is the Thursday night keynote speaker at March of Dimes Canada’s Changemakers Supper Club at the Liberty Grand at Toronto Exhibition Place.

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