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i figured out how it's gonna take my life. i'd say myself in the mirror and i just realized i don't even have any connection with the person to stand back any more or support a living if you're not living here. growing up, there were 3 things that charlie martin was convinced of the 1st that she was trans and didn't identify as mailed. the agenda she'd been assigned in both. the 2nd, the place she felt most at home was the race track. the 3rd that she'd never be able to reconcile these to world. i am charlie martin, i'm a professional racing driver. i'm in l g b t, t plus activist. i'm hoping to be the 1st trans driver at the 24 hours of lamar. i grew up feeling very limited because knowing that i was transgender from a young age, i never had any role models growing up. i'd never seen anyone like me doing

anything the i spied today. and that had the effect of making me feel very limited in terms of my life options. it was like, you have to choose between being the person you want to be doing the things, career wise and so on and so on that you want to have in your life. you can't have both those things. so i just, i didn't feel like his dreams reality. and a huge chasm between most he thinks is 2 outcomes. carolyn, cause he was the 1st person that i discovered he was transgender. and i up until that point i didn't realize people could be born as one gender feel that they are identifies different gender and then they can actually physically transition and so on, so on. so when i saw her,

it was like someone telling me the world in flat like you're really real eureka moment in my life. and i think back then that the thinking was very much. if you were boy fields or girl, he shouldn't want to climb trees and get dirty and tend your fight pilot or racing called try if he should be playing with dolls and, and so on. and so on. i this was not kind of kit when i was about a 1000000 years old, i had a friend containment and his dantes to race not professionally, but you know, very competitively at club level. and he said, yeah, you know, we're going racing. if you're calm, i'd never actually been to race track and especially being in the paddock with all the cars being surrounded by, by all these cause it's

a very kind of intoxicating smell. being in the environment, you know, the capital are and, and just the noise and do something about it. but just yeah, just let a real spark of enthusiasm in me. and then my brother and i went from the mall for 3 years, running 2001 to 3. the 3 years the band competed eventually one. and that was yeah, i mean that was like nothing i'd ever seen. i said year less diverse c. i made up my mind, this is it. i'm going to 20 some, some racing myself, but this pudgy 25, was like a half finished project at a ro cage had a 60 bow van jane. but that was, it was light at 4 wheels at night. doors on a, it was like everything was stripped out of it, but it was something i could afford. the 1st thing i did out, she was a sprint

a cobra bit. nonetheless, i was there, i was can be saying, doing my to sport on to my own state. and that was a great feeling ah, coming in stop period. that's when i started to struggle. very struggle with my my gender identity and i wake up in the morning and see myself in the mirror and i just realized, yeah, i don't, i don't even have any connection with the person staring back at me anymore. at nothing in my life really matter to me anymore because it's dislike. well, what's the point living? she's not living with you. i figured out how it's gonna take my life. and i couldn't, i, you know, i was at a point where i just couldn't even function. you know, i could barely get through the day. i slept breaking down. um

and i thought myself, this is this wrong, i can't do this. and that was january 2012 that i, i decided, okay, this is it, i'm going to transition a se 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, it was like this huge mountain. the i was terrified of confronting. and i looked at my sport and i just thought no one's gonna accept me in that space. i'd never seen any l t t keep off disability and because that was such a place for me, i couldn't bear the idea of that being turned around and being space where i didn't feel welcome and i felt rejected. and so i just thought, well, i'll just give up,

you know, i don't, i don't want to send him. charlie's family and friends convinced her not to be back to undressing 9 months into her medical transition, which involved coin, laundry placement therapy and surgery. she had done to a race track for the 1st time. working to potter was like scary thing can imagine. i had sat in my car, amanda sat, my car in the car park to thinking will i'd have to do this. it does go home. no one never knows. fortunately, 7 or 8 of my close friends i raced with came over. so many name can be because, you know, there will likely but racing next year. we're good. see the love i felt that gesture was a really profound thing. it made a massive impact. in fact, if they hadn't done that, i wouldn't go back the next year. 2 years into the transition, charlie began attacking her modest bored goals with renewed vigor and

a new found confidence. things began looking up in her career. i pans for probably the hardest part of that experience and i started to find confidence and self belief that i'd never 9 and my whole life. and i think that had a huge impact. not just on racing, but on so many levels on just how you think in function. i think a big part of me was kind of locked up inside. the living in denial was living in denial. it's using physical entity to suppress her. a major part of your personality, a really intrinsic part of who you are as a person. when, when you do that, you're using physical entities. it's iris. it's mentally teegan.

ah, i went to fonts, i did it around the french euclid championship. and i one by 3 seconds, and i break the close record by 2 seconds or something, which is how climb terms is. it's like a lot. i mean, i just, whether or when it's, it's going to have experience. and i have you, wilma surprise, me included like where did that come from? charlie's since may adapted progress, switching to focusing and jacking up podiums in a variety of cds. she even tied up would be m w and mid history as the 1st trans competitor at the no buggering, $24.00 finishing forth in class. but her burning ambition is to become the 1st trans facing driver at the 24 eyes of lamar said 2017 was my last year hill climbing. and at the end of that year there was a,

within the, within the team structure, there was the opportunity to do an endurance race. in that call. i looked the calendar, i could, if i had the budget, the one race. and i looked on those one words that popped out on me the mon, november 2017 thought. wow. 3 or endurance race in a prototype at the barn. of course not the 24 hour cost is the beauty circuit, but nonetheless, i never thought. and my wife streams the i can stand on the podium at the mall and not just, not just me, but real me. and i just remember thinking it is, you know, if i can, if i can do this, i can get this fall. then that's like her, it's like a sign. it's like and i him, it's like you've got a coin. you gotta keep going and try make this happen. and race that 24 hours long

for real. whether i got on the podium or not as another thing, in addition to her using ambitions which includes competing in the 2022 lamborghini, supernatural fail cds. charlie is an l g, b t, q plus activist. she uses her platform to fight for diversity and more dis, board and the word in this life. i want to help other people find the happiness that i found. and i also want other people to understand the role day can play and facilitating more inclusive environments where everybody can be the true authentic self. i think 70 actually pretty surprised. i think 70 her charlie was pretty happy because i never imagined that things would be the way they are now. so i think i feel like i've had to wait a little time at the inquiry patient assistant, i think so. right now is like

a good time. so yeah, i think 7, your b would be pretty happy places get ah me, a big part of it is believing and possibility. yeah. if you believe something is possible, you, you give it a guy, you get a 100 percent rather than talk yourself out of it. say, i always said this is impossible. i can't do this. this isn't for me. say suddenly, you flip that around and you think, okay, is possible and i, and i've just prove that i can do that. well, what else can i do?

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