for your own identity. you demanded that the military this is after conviction, but you were facing a long prison sentence. you demanded that the military system and the government recognise you as transgender, give you hormone treatment. yes. and if they would not, you said i m going on hunger strike. yes. to death. yes. and in fact, they bent, and you became the first ever prisoner in military custody to get hormone therapy. us military custody. yeah. is that more important to you in a way than this sort of advocacy for transparency that you re involved in? imean, it s. i mean, they re different, obviously. i think it s more important for me personally that i be who i am and that i have some because after my court martial and after i faced responsibility or after i faced accountability and took responsibility for everything, and i had a sentence and i was given you know, numbers is sort of the phrase. let s face it, you were given 35 years. yeah, but it s numbers. it s a number that
or that i m facing any. that there s any end to this. and so it all started to blend together because i don t even know what time it is, because it s the same. it s the same lights every all day. like, i can t see the sun. i have no idea what s going on. well, i ll tell you what s so striking about this is you say you didn t know when, how the end would come, but you had the strength. despite all of this and despite, obviously, the mental trauma you were going through to fight not just the case, which we ve gone into in some detail, but you also made a stand for your own identity. you demanded that the military this is after conviction, but you were facing a long prison sentence. you demanded that the military system and the government recognise you as transgender, give you hormone treatment. yes. and if they would not, you said i m going on hunger strike. yes. to death. yes. and in fact, they bent, and you became the first ever prisoner in military custody to get hormone therapy. us m
i don t know that i m facing charges. i have a lawyer or that i m facing any. ..that there s any end to this. and it all started to blend together because i don t even know what time it is, because it s the same, it s the same lights all day. like, i can t see the sun, i have no idea what s going on. well, i ll tell you what s so striking about this is you say you didn t know when, how, the end would come, but you had the strength, despite all of this and despite, obviously, the mental trauma you were going through, to fight not just the case, which we ve gone into in some detail, but you also made a stand for your own identity. you demanded that the military, this is after conviction, but you were facing a long prison sentence, you demanded that the military system and the government recognise you as transgender, give you hormone treatment. yes. and if they would not, you said, i m going on hunger strike. yes. to death. yes. and in fact, they bent and you became the first ever prisone
us military custody. yeah. is that more important to you in a way than this sort of advocacy for transparency that you re involved in? i mean, it s. i mean, they re different, obviously. i think it s more important for me personally that i be who i am and that i have some. because after my court martial and after i faced responsibility or after i faced accountability and took responsibility for everything, and i had a sentence and i was given a numbers is sort of the phrase. let s face it, you were given 35 years. yeah, but it s numbers. it s a number that you can count down from, it s not life without parole, you know. so now it was a matter of improving the quality of life and ensuring that i can make it through and survive this. and i don t think it would be realistic of me, for me to have survived the 32 years not having access to the care that i needed at the time. the troubled mind you had
you demanded that the military system and the government recognise you as transgender, give you hormone treatment. yes. and if they would not, you said i m going on hunger strike. yes. to death. yes. and in fact, they bent, and you became the first ever prisoner in military custody to get hormone therapy. us military custody. yeah. is that more important to you in a way than this sort of advocacy for transparency that you re involved in? imean, it s. i mean, they re different, obviously. i think it s more important for me personally that i be who i am and that i have some because after my court martial and after i faced responsibility or after i faced accountability and took responsibility for everything, and i had a sentence and i was given you know, numbers is sort of the phrase. let s face it, you were given 35 years. yeah, but it s numbers. it s a number that you can count down from. it s not life without parole, you know. so now it was a matter of improving the quality of life and