the 3rd that she'd never be able to reconcile these 2 will i am charlie martin. i'm a professional racing driver. i'm in l g b t, t plus activist. i'm hope 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 spy 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 a 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, so on. so when i saw her, it was lik

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 for me and then they can actually physically transition and so and so on. so when i saw her, it was like someone telling me world isn't flat, you know, i can really, really eureka moment in my life. and i think back then that the, the thinking was very much the if you avoid it feels our girl. you shouldn't want to climb trees and get dirty and tend your fight pilot are racing call try if he should be playing with those 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 container 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 the color. it's a very kind of intoxicating smell, b

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