Tyler Leslight has the most amazing back story ever.
They will write books and make movies about him,
The kid was kicked out of home at just 14, all because he told his folks that he was a boy not a girl.
It’s sad, and its bad, and it resulted in him hitting the streets long before any kid should, and like chastity belts and petticoats it’s a monument to attitudes belonging to long gone days, ones that were always wrong, but which only disappeared in the past couple of years.
Wonderful young human beings like Tyler Leslight made them disappear.
He ground them into dust.
Tyler was born in a girl’s body, but he never was one.
It wasn’t anything he did, he was just born with the wrong mix of chromosomes, and was really a boy.
He became one in his early teens, because that’s what he really is, and he had the guts to say it and live it, in the back of a horse float for the past few years since he was able to save up and buy one.
Now he is the Country Apprentice of the Year.
How about that hey?
Put that in your pipe and smoke it all you poor, ignorant, life stilted bigots.
Tyler is the Champion of the World!
The first transgender kid to win a premiership in any sport anywhere in the world.
He’s made history.
And do you know what?
There is no-one on the planet who deserves it more.
Michelle Payne’s Melbourne Cup win has got nothing on this.
This is a story that will race around the world, and so it should too, for it shows everyone everywhere that you can be what you are, and reach for the stars, and makes your dreams come true.
All you have to do is believe, in yourself and what’s right.
He will go down in history this kid.
He already has.
Tyler Leslight is the bravest young person I have ever met.
He is my hero.
He should be yours too.
