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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 cheating there. charlie martin was convinced of the 1st that she was trans and didn't identify as meal the gender. 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 2 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 grow not 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 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 there's 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 a different gender and then they can actually physically transition and so on and

so on. so when i saw her, it was like someone telling me the world is flat. like you're really real eureka moment in my life. and i think that the thinking was very much if you were boy, that feels that 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 those and, and so on. and so on, i just was not going to care 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 cause. being surrounded by bio because it's

a very kind of intoxication smell being in the environment. you know, the capital are and and interest noise and do something about it. they just yeah. just let a real spark of enthusiasm in me and then my brother and i went from them on for 3 years, running 2001 to 3. the 3 years the competing, eventually one. and that was yeah, i mean that was like nothing i'd ever seen. i said, year le seat of a see, i made up my mind this is it. i'm going to 20 some, some racing myself but as opposed to fife was like a half finished project at ro cage had a 16 pow van jen. but that was, it was light out for wheels at no doors on a. it was all like with everything was stripped out of it, but it was something i could afford. a 1st thing i did out, she was a sprint

a cobra bit. nonetheless, i was there. i was can p saying does doing my to sport on my own stay. and that was a great feeling. wow. coming in stop period does when i started to struggle. very struggle with my what gender identity and i wait for the morning and see myself in the mirror and i just realized, yeah, i don't even have any connection with the person staying back at me anymore. at nothing in my life really matter to me any more because it's just like, well, what's the point in living? you're 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 of that sled break down. i'm

and i thought to 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 say 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 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, i felt rejected. and so i just thought, well, i'd just give up. you know, i don't,

i don't wanna do this anymore. mm hm. charlie's family and friends convinced her not to give up when dressing 9 months into her medical transition, which involved hormone di placement had to be and surgery. she had done to a race track for the 1st time. wharton potter was like scary thing could imagine. i had sat in my car, amanda sat, my car in the car park to thinking, well, i'd have to do this. if i could just go home. no one never knows. fortunately, 7 or 8 of my close friends i raced with came over. so many, ne, can we pick hog, you know, there were like, equally about racing next year where you could see the love i felt my gesture was a really profound thing. it made a massive impact. in fact, the hadn't done that. i wouldn't go back the next year, 2 years into a transition, charlie began attacking her motorsport goals with renewed vigor and

a new found confidence. things began looking up in her career by bands for probably the hardest part of that experience. and i starting to find confidence and self belief that i'd never 9 and my whole life. and i think that had a huge impact. no, just on racing, but on. so many levels on just how you think of function. i think a big part of me was kind of locked up inside. but 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 hill climb championship. and i 1.3 seconds, and i broke the clos record by 2 seconds, which in her class turns if it's like a lot. i mean, i just weather when it's, it's gonna have experience. and have you, wilma surprise, me included like, where did that come from, charlie? since may a jap in progress switching to focusing and racking up podiums in a variety of cities. she even tied up would be m w, and made 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 transit thing driver at the 24 hours of the mall. so 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 callan derek. if i had the budget, the one race and i looked, i lost one word 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 course, just the beauty circuit. but nonetheless, i never thought in my wife streams duyka 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, you know him. it's like you've got a clear train. you gotta keep going and try make this happen,

and race that the 24 hours long for real. whether i go on the podium or not as another thing, in addition to her, the thing ambitions, which includes competing in the 2022 lamborghini. so patrol 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 and i also want other people to understand the role they can play and facilitating more inclusive environments where everybody can be their true authentic self. i, i think 70 charlie 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 long time had to quit patient and the system there. i think so. right now is like

a good time. so yeah, i think 7 year be refit. be pretty happy places get ah me a big part of it, leaving a 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 do. he said this is impossible. i can't do this. this isn't for me. so suddenly you flip that around and you think, okay, is possible and i, and i just prove that i can do that. well, what else can i do with

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