Gender Quotes by Nicole Maines

11 Gender quotes by Nicole Maines

Nicole Maines brings her own lens to gender across eleven succinct statements. Each line reveals a piece of her viewpoint, making this a handy starter for anyone curious about how she articulates the subject.

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I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we've said it exists does not really exist…

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Because you never know when a transgender person is going to come into your life, you need to be prepared, and you…

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I think, for all trans people, it's not our only defining feature, but it is a defining feature.

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Gender is a spectrum, and that's something that a lot of folks don't understand.

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More than anything, I want fans to take away an understanding of trans people that we can be anybody.

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It's good to have a free space to laugh and cry and get angry about gender and sexuality. That's one of the…

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It's OK not to understand the whole trans thing. That's alright. My dad didn't understand it. I still don't know everything. What's…

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Gender is something that occurs in the mind, and sex is something that occurs, you know, everywhere else on the body. And…

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This entire issue of transgender people posing a kind of threat to cisgender women in bathrooms is made up. We are just…

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I think it is necessary to educate folks on trans issues and to make them aware of trans identities and normalise it,…

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The first thing that's really important to understand, just when approaching the topic of transgender people, is that the sex you're assigned…

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At some point, I want to create a family and help them on their journey like my family helped me on mine.

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It's OK not to understand the whole trans thing. That's alright. My dad didn't understand it. I still don't know everything. What's important is…

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Family has been really important to me.

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Growing up, I was from kind of Nowhere, Maine. And, so, now having thousands of people reaching out to me via social media and…

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Separate but equal does not work.

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I knew that I was trans when I was three years old. Well, I didn't know 'trans' because I didn't know there was a…

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My family knew that they loved me, and whatever this 'I want to be a girl' business was, it certainly wasn't about to change…

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