Trans activist Munroe Bergdorf faces her past while writing her life story. As childhood trauma from societal rejection | dG1fZzU0QWlWSFp6MGc
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00:00It's a heavy weight to be Monroe Burgdorf.
00:05The expectations, the pressure.
00:08But I think that's something you should honour.
00:13I feel like I've got different families.
00:16Hello, Mummy.
00:17My birth family and my chosen family.
00:21When I was younger, I didn't want to be queer.
00:24It was extremely lonely.
00:26Dysphoria puts you into a prison of your own body.
00:31As soon as I got to the city, I was like, wow.
00:33Everything just changed.
00:37I met other trans people.
00:41It was just unconditional love.
00:45Back then, there was a significant shift in trans acceptance.
00:49Trans rights!
00:52I was getting modelling jobs.
00:54I could, you know, throw a look.
00:57L'Oreal, the biggest beauty company in the world, wanted to work with me.
01:01And then that level of influence got higher and higher.
01:05As great as it was,
01:09the takedown was ten times worse.
01:13In the eyes of the media, she could do nothing right.
01:18It was really beginning to affect Monroe physically as well as mentally.
01:21The life expectancy for transgender women is so young.
01:34If we can't love, then what's the point?
01:37It really forced me to fight for myself in a way that I'd never fought for myself before.
01:46I'm not going to give up.
01:49Monroe Bergdorf, activist, model, writer and broadcaster.
01:55Thank you for your voice, for your courage.
01:58Monroe can do it, I can do it.
01:59I'm not willing to live a life broken.
02:11Love and rage.