I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
They can actually change. You know you can go from being straight to being gay to being transgender and all these other… — Vernon Jones Copy Share Image
“After a year and a half my therapist retired, so I was bounced to someone else-a woman. Shazam! I suddenly felt I… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
I've always been transgender, and I always will be. Having said that, my spirit is feminine. If you had to divide humanity… — Anohni Copy Share Image
The transgender community has always been a part of Hawaiian society, where people who don't conform to the binary system of man/woman,… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
I really don't understand how parents can talk about gay couples' PDA as a problem or a transgender teen's suicide and not… — Steven Petrow Copy Share Image
When I walk down the street in a dress, people think I'm transgender. The issue isn't that I'm embarrassed to be thought… — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
On my road to self-discovery, only certain terms were available - I didn't use 'trans' or 'transgender' until junior high school, but… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
I am transgender, so 'he' is not appropriate and 'she' is problematic. I haven't been one to wage war with society to… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
“The term “FTM-Butch Border War” just sounds like an alien land of yore. How is it that the gravitational pull of my… — Mitch Kellaway Copy Share Image
Hijras earn a living by egging, sex work, badhai or blessing. There are now transgenders in social work, the fashion industry, who… — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Copy Share Image
“What is faith, if not an acceptance that there are things out there that cannot be explained? You know what you know,… — Ian Thomas Malone Copy Share Image
I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Looking at the huge number of transgender women of color who have been murdered since the beginning of the year - that… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
“Instead of saying that all gender is this or all gender is that, let's recognize that the word gender has scores of… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of the human condition that makes each… — Linda Thompson Copy Share Image
For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be… — Chaz Bono Copy Share Image
I'm not saying transgender characters should be only interpreted by transgender actors - because that would be as rigid as saying transgender… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
Days after being sworn in as the nation's top law enforcement officer, Trump's attorney general, the virulently anti-LGBTQ Jeff Sessions, revoked lifesaving… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
I want to be able to supply the knowledge that transgender women need in order to live peacefully and become accepted among… — Carmen Carrera Copy Share Image
Seeing states like North Carolina enacting these bathroom bills that are banning transgender individuals from using the restrooms they identify as... it's… — Jazz Jennings Copy Share Image
I think that the fact of the matter is that metal isn't really part of the big picture of the gay, lesbian,… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
“Makeup can be used to express yourself as well. Those experiences should not be limited to women. Everyone should be free to… — Ian Thomas Malone Copy Share Image
Being transgender is more than just medical books and everything, procedures. It's something spiritual in which you're finding yourself and really discovering… — Jazz Jennings Copy Share Image
Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But Im an activist -… — Chaz Bono Copy Share Image
Progress can't happen just from trans people being out in the open. Society also has to truly accept transgender individuals. If society… — Jazz Jennings Copy Share Image
My parents started questioning me about whether or not I was transgender - whether or not I was trying to be a… — James Charles Copy Share Image
“Being creatures means that we cannot re-create ourselves in any fashion or form that we desire by a simple act of the… — Andrew T. Walker Copy Share Image
Being a black transgender woman in America is really hard. It's been really hard for me. But for me living a lie… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
The people that say diversity is the reason for the greatness are purposely assaulting the United States as founded. They want you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The transgender movement even divides itself up by gender, as many folks stick with their same trans-genders (female-to-male or male-to-female). Additionally, the… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
The first time I heard the word 'transgender' had been in a sitcom episode that mocked the potential for cisgender people to… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
“So it's actually way easier just to humor these men who grew up watching movies where the girl doesn't like the hero… — Imogen Binnie Copy Share Image
“Here’s a story I heard: somewhere there was a transgender woman trying to explain her transition to a geeky-but-otherwise-clueless friend. Nothing she… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“After three hours, I come back to the waiting room. It is a cosmetic surgery office, so a little like a hotel… — Joan Nestle Riki Anne Wilchins Clare Howell Copy Share Image
“My body is a political battlefield. It is a place of war, of death and suffering, of triumph and victory, of damage… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
“Before this case, he’d never given any thought to transgender issues. His employers flew the rainbow flag and celebrated Pride week, so… — Dawn Chalker Copy Share Image
“A lot more airtime is given to other people's use of us, rather than our own experiences. Our existence is made into… — Alok Vaid-Menon Copy Share Image
If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
We had so many milestones in America. We were on our way to universal healthcare. We had gay marriage. We were talking… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
![“The term “FTM-Butch Border War” just sounds like an alien land of yore. How is it that the gravitational pull of my beard and low-voice should hold [my lesbian friend's] masculinity in deferential orbit? That when standing side-by-side we are supposedly read in comparison, rendering her…” quote by Mitch Kellaway](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/300/mitch-kellaway-52397_masculinity_the-term-ftm-butch-border-war-just-sound_276237.jpg)
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