Often people detransition because life as a trans person is very difficult. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
The expectation that trans people must go away to medically transition strikes me as a burden. People have to work, to live… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
A phrase like 'gender dysphoria,' I hear it, and it's like a granite rock. There's no way to enter any emotion into… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Everybody wants a prize to be unadulterated pleasure. Because I'm trans, I don't get that purity of recognition. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
There's a lot that cis and trans women have to say to each other. We're all dealt blows, and we move on… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
One of the things that is very uncomfortable to talk about with other trans women is that not everybody's transition is the… — 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
I don't think a lot of the experiences of transness are unique to being trans - there are all sorts of people… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
We're actually all constantly, even in minor ways, making choices to confirm or affirm the gender that we want to have. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
The basic building blocks of being trans are not 'other' to other people: the desire to be recognised by the people that… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
When I say that I'm trans, what I'm essentially saying is that I'm standing in solidarity. I feel an affinity with other… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Cis women want to know what trans women know. And they don't want the dumbed-down version of it - the same way… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
There are times when I think that trans women have a certain wisdom on gender, and can see the ways it's performed… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Things like debates over which bathrooms trans people use; it is incredibly undignified to have to stage your Human Rights Campaign about… — 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
The party line is that you declare yourself a gender, and then everybody will respect it. But the way it actually works… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Our genders are in negotiation with other people. I'm like, 'I want to be seen this way, and so I'm going to… — 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
I hope that by the end of reading 'Stag Dance,' you can no longer really say for sure who does or doesn't… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
It's not that I am demanding empathy for trans people. It's actually more than I'm demanding that readers have empathy for themselves,… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I flat-out owe my career as a trans author to the unimpeded circulation of digital books: the first trans books that inspired… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Money is a thing that is very, very difficult for people to talk about, especially with transness. Who can afford surgeries? Who… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I'm obsessed with this book 'Independent People,' by Halldor Laxness. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
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 Image
When I'm open to beauty's true power, I believe it changes me for the better. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
People are going to make mistakes no matter what because that's what being human is. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
