Now, Martin is focused on breaking the next barrier: becoming the first trans person to compete in the iconic 24 Hours of Le Mans, the oldest active endurance sports car race in the world.
“I’m not going to stop until I’ve made it a reality,” Martin says. “I think it would just be an incredibly inspiring thing, and an incredibly powerful moment for the LGBT community. Because in a sport that really doesn’t have much visibility at all, I think it makes it even more powerful to do something that can really help inspire positive change in society.”
While in isolation, Martin has turned to Esports to keep her skills sharp. The experience, Martin says, has been really fun, though it has taken some reorienting.“When driving in a car in the physical world, you have all of this information your senses are picking up…When you’re racing in a simulation, you can pretty much count on having most of those removed. It’s like a pianist trying to play piano with a blindfold and earmuffs.
“Motorsports is such a male dominated sport,” she says. “There are hardly any female drivers, there is no LGBT presence or visibility really, so I thought, this is a huge opportunity to use the fact that I do really stand out and to actually use my story to do good, to help people…I felt like it was an obligation to really do it.”
Growing up, Martin says she only saw trans people on television, and they were always portrayed in a negative light.
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