I don't have any tech skills; I don't have any coding skills. If I'd been trying to get a job as a… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Motherhood is the hardest thing for a trans woman to get, if she didn't have a family when she transitioned. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if you're trans or not, if some guy is after a woman and all they can talk about is… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
For me, there's always been a question of being trans and doing trans. Whether or not you're living as a trans woman,… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
The question of motherhood for me is never just between me and a baby, or me and a man. There's always another… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
If you're a femme woman in a hardware store and someone won't let you pick up a hammer, the work of gendering… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
If you read a book by a cis woman, there's a full range of people doing things for all sorts of different… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
When I was transitioning, I assumed that cis woman had it down somehow, that they'd had this childhood and they understood what… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
The ways that I began to relate to other women as a woman wasn't around 'We're so fierce,' or something like that,… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of my literary heroes. This distresses many of my female, queer, and trans friends: Torrey, you have… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Figuring out that so many cis women are walking around feeling like they're constantly failing as woman in all these different ways,… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
When I published 'Detransition, Baby,' there weren't that many trans books out. One of the reasons I think it got as much… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
The premise of any discussion I have is not to debate my humanity. I refuse to engage on that level. It makes for a… — Torrey Peters Copy Share
People don't care about facts anyway; in my country, we have 'alternative facts.' But if you can make somebody feel something - and oftentimes… — Torrey Peters Copy Share
The fact that someone like me can exist terrifies some people. Because: 'What if you had control of your body and you got to… — Torrey Peters Copy Share
Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of my literary heroes. This distresses many of my female, queer, and trans friends: Torrey, you have every woman… — Torrey Peters Copy Share
At certain moments in my life, I have stumbled upon a beauty so extreme, I have stepped back in alarm. There are some people… — Torrey Peters Copy Share
It's not just unexpected for other people. It's very unexpected for myself. But I think that's like a really good place to write from,… — Torrey Peters Copy Share
When I'm open to beauty's true power, I believe it changes me for the better. — Torrey Peters Copy Share
People are going to make mistakes no matter what because that's what being human is. — Torrey Peters Copy Share
I mean, I don't relate to characters who are perfect. If someone offers up somebody as a role model, I'm going to be like,… — Torrey Peters Copy Share
At the time that 'Detransition, Baby' came out, I was really resistant to having anybody say that I was representing trans women. Because there… — Torrey Peters Copy Share
I'm from the Midwest, and I was raised a boy. If you told my 17-year-old self that when you turn 40, you're going to… — Torrey Peters Copy Share
