This speech was delivered at Newcastle Civic Center on the 20th of November 2022, as a part of the Trans Day of Remembrance. This event is here to talk about the violence faced at the end of many trans people's lives. But it must be remembered that this violence begins right at the start of a trans person's life, when they breathe their first gasp of oxygen in this world, and based on one body part, a category is stamped on that person without their knowledge. That category bleeds out into their every social interaction, their every blink in the mirror, every time they step out of their home, every time they come back to their home, every time they shop for clothes or sing or eat or cry or don't cry or laugh or hug someone or get spat at on the street or get told they're beautiful or watch a romcom with a man and a woman after the last romcom with a man and a woman after the last twenty one years of their life looking at men and women and not seeing themselves, and th