SISTERS, and my non binary comrades. I am honored to speak to you on what is in fact my very first pride. The organizers got to me by assuming that I can tell you anything you don't already know - many of you are a lot wiser and more experienced than me. You have to excuse me, if I speak plainly, and to the purpose, I'm not an activist, or a great leader, or a great speaker, I'm just an actress. but Truth is, that I'm scared to speak up on something like this, cause I don't know whether I'm gonna have an acting career tomorrow, if I tell the truth about what it's like to be Trans in this country. But The truth is and you don't need me to tell you, it's pretty HARD. And that's not cause of "toxic debates", it's not because of social media, and it sure as FUCK isn't about CANCEL CULTURE. It's BECAUSE LEGALLY AND POLITICALLY we are not allowed to control our own lives. There is a WORD for how that makes me feel, the word is humiliated. When my doctor REFUSES to treat me, and makes me use a segregated health care system, I am humiliated. When I am forced to beg and scrape for permission to get married from the government's gender recognition panel, I AM HUMILIATED. When I, am thrown to the concrete by an officer of the metropolitan police for daring to protest the Government that inflict these indignities, and that officer was wearing a RAINBOW PRIDE BADGE. I. AM. HUMILIATED. It is the feeling that control over your life has been taken away from you, you do not need me to tell you, we are not the only people in this country who feel that way. But, But, there is something else isn't there? There is something else that has brought all of us here today, despite the difficulties that cis people inflict on us, I don't think that being Trans is a burden. I don't think that being Trans is a curse. I think . . . it's a gift. There is POWERRRR IN THIS!!!!!! TO TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE, TO REACH DOWN INTO YOUR OWN CELLS AND TAKE POSSESSION OF THEM - TO NAME YOUR-SELF! TO TAKE YOUR DESTINY BY THE SCRUFF OF THE NECK AND SAY "NO GOD DAMNIT, INTO THE LIST THIS IS MY LIFE AND I WILL BE THE MISTRESS OF IT" I REMEMBER THAT DAY - *MIC CUTS OUT* I REMEMBER - wewillnotbesilenced... even by me! I remember the first day when I realized who and what I am, I remember that FEELING LIKE THE CLOUDS HAD PARTED AND THE HAND OF GOD HAD COME DOWN, A FEELING THAT MANY OF YOU NO DOUBT HAVE SHARED, SINCE THAT DAY, I HAVE FELT E LEC TRICITY IN MY BLOOD. AND I HAVE FELT A, A PA-SSION, A PASSION THAT OUT BURNS THE SUN! IT IS THE DESIRE TO LIVE, IT IS THE DESIRE TO TAKE CONTROL, I LOOK AT THESE FACES NOW, AND I DON'T SEE HUMILIATED VICTIMS, or timid creatures, I SEE LIONS, I SEE TIGERS, I SEE THE REAL KINGS AND QUEENS OF THIS COUNTRY I see the hope in a hopeless country, I see the harbingers of a new world, that struggles to be born and is proud to come out. The women and equalities ministry, "Liz truss" "She says she wants Trans people to live with dignity" "FUCK THAT BITCH, FUCK THAT BITCH, FUCK THAT BITCH- audience" I've got dignity coming out of my ass. I don't want pity, I don't want condescension or charity, I don't even want visibility and representation. I want control over my own GODDAMN LIFE. THAT IS AN AMBITION WORTH PROUD OF! THAT - IS WHY WE SAY....TRANS POWER! TRANS POWER! TRANS POWER!
MC: MAKE SOME NOISE FOR ABIGAIL THORN EVERYBODY!
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