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a recording there from came a lot is all from the news for now after the break and the w documentary profiling the incredible journey of trans racing driver charlie martin, stick around for that as a really thank you so much for your company. i'll be back before at the top of the next hour. hope to see you then the, [000:00:00;00] the so you don't think and feel the same way you expect and one different things from life and your parents. i just want to pursue what sets my
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salon fire or you think your kid is 2 different, risky, irresponsible, unreasonable, all stuff. i want to indicate it's time to to and then when generations clash dogs, january 14th on d, w. i figured out how it is going to take my life. i see myself in to barrett, i just realized i don't even have any connection with preston started back. meaningful or supported living tional living is here growing up. so what? 3 things that charlie martin was convinced of the 1st that she was trans and didn't identify as meals. the agenda she'd been assigned and but the 2nd, the place she felt most at home was the restrict the tubs that you'd never be able
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to come titled these 2 words. the hi, i'm telling you, boston, i'm a professional racing driver. i'm in l t t t plus activist. i don't have to be the 1st trends, july, the 24 hours of the month. i probably not feeling very limited because knowing as transgender from the young age, i never had any role models growing up. i've never seen anyone like me doing anything the ice by today, and that had the effect of making me feel very limited terms of my life options. caroline, cause he was the 1st person that i discovered he was transgender. and up until that point, i didn't realize people could people on this one gender feel that they all or dentist wise is different. gender and then they can actually physically transition
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in and so on and so on. so when i saw her, it was like someone telling me will isn't flat, you know, i can't really risk your recombine in my life. why no, it was about a 1000000 years old. i had a friend co payments and his dad used to race, nope. professionally, but you know, very competitively at club level. and he said, yeah, you know, we're getting racing through the com. i never actually been to race track and especially being in the pad it with the cause being surrounded by, by all these cause it's very a, it's a very kind of intoxicating smile being in that environment you know, tester lawrence and dentist with noise and do something about it that just yeah, just let
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a real stock if indeed he hasn't made me so year left seat of a see i made up my mind this is it. i'm going to 20 some some bracing myself. but this pleasure to a 5 was like a hoff finished project. a roll cage had a 16 valve engine, but that was, it was like, had 4 wheels at no doors on. it was like, everything was stripped out of it, but it was something i could afford. it 1st thing i did not, she was a sprint, the cobra. but nonetheless, i was, that was completely saying the thing might this bolt onto my own stay. and that was a great feeling coming in stop period. so when i'm starting to struggle, very struggle with my like gender identity and i was like in the morning and see myself in the mirror and i to realize, yeah, i don't,
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i don't even have any connection with the person steinbach him anymore at nothing in my life reading math, it's me anymore because it's just like, well, what's the point you living in the living? see i figured out how it was gonna take my life. and i couldn't like, you know, i was at a point where i, i just couldn't even function. you know, i could barely get through the day on since that breaks down and i thoughts myself. this is this wrong, i can't do this. and that was january 2012 that i decided to take this. i'm going to transition state transition was the thing that i wanted most in my life. and yet at the same time, it was the scariest thing could imagine. it was this, you know,
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it was like this huge mountain. the i was terrified of confronting or, and i might spoke and i just don't know what's going on except me in that space. charlie's family and friends convinced her not to be buckland, racing 9 months into her medical transition, which involved hormone replacement therapy and surgery. she's it done to early struck for the 1st time products. it's like scary thing to imagine. it's not in my car. i'm going to set my car in the car park just thinking, well, i'd have to do this. if i could just go home. no, it would have nice fortunately. 7. right. if my close friends are raced with came i the serving a can be because you know, they were like me, bart racing next you so we can get see the love i felt that gesture was a really profound thing. and made a mess, it impacts impacts if they hadn't done that, i wouldn't come back the next year,
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2 years into the transition, charlie began attacking her motorcycle gould with renewed vigor. and then you found confidence. things began looking up in hook area. i pens for probably the hardest part of that experience and i'm starting to find confidence, self belief that i'd never 9 and my whole heights. and i think that had a huge impact. no, it just don't racing but on so many levels on just how you thing to function. it's like having computed it's pretty old and slight and you installed in your pricing system and you picked it up and it's like from let's go. good. you want to do what you want. okay. that's what it felt like to me. i went on, so i did it around the french,
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he'll claim championship. and i 143 seconds. and i break plus record by 2 seconds. which it who clinton's is. it's like a lot or, i mean i just went there, i want to sky has experience. and have you want me to surprise me included? like where did that come from? 62017 was my last year till clinic. and at the end of that year there was a within the, within the team structure, there was an opportunity to do an endurance race in the call. alex the counting deck, if i the budget to the one rice and i looked on those one with the pop telling me that on november 2017. so wow, 3 errands here and thrice. enterprise to type out the ball. and of course not the 24 hour cost is to be se 2nd, but nonetheless,
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i never so in my wildest dreams, i can stand on the podium at the moment. a note just not just me, but real me. and i just remember thinking, say so, you know, if i, if i can see that, i can get this fall. then that's like, it's like a sign. it's like, can i have it's like you could, you could try and you gotta keep going and try and make this happen. us and race and the 20 for us of them on for real. whether i got on the paid him or not us. another thing in the slice i want to help other people find the happiness that i found. and i also want other people to understand the role they can play and facilitating more inclusive environment square. everybody can be that true authentic self. when you're brave you,
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you take risks. sometimes it doesn't great way you want that, but more often than not, you, you like i took a foster on the corner. i can, i can take that, that corner in for care contact according fix. can you, you just continually push the boundaries, push your limits of what's comfortable with what, what's cheaper pulling into for long you have to cards and sit in build something very yeah. very real insight. i think i'm pretty surprised. i think stephanie, her chatting was pretty coffee cuz i never imagined that thing so either way down now. so i think i feel like i've had to wait some type of patient assistance, but i think sorry, right now is like a good time. so yeah, i think 7 year old me repeat be pretty like
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the may a big part of it as the leading impulse benefits. yeah, keeping something is possible. you, you get a guy, you get a 100 percent ross been told to yourself out of it. say, i always said this is impossible. i can't do that. this isn't for me. so you send me flip that around and you think okay, is possible and i, i just prove and i can do that. what else connie dates the way to go, charlie, and stay tuned for more automotive hope street has and possibilities. and the next step is owed up. wrap.
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