Transgender Quotes · Page 3

Seeing a black transgender woman embracing and loving everything about herself might be inspiring to some other folks.

— Laverne Cox

I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television.

— Jeffrey Tambor

I'm just one example of thousands of transgender veterans and people who are actively serving today.

— Allyson Robinson

Where I came from, it was more shocking to be an atheist than to be transgender.

— Fallon Fox

“No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.”

— Agnostic Zetetic

Could somebody explain to me why transgender people have become so important to Barack Hussein O? I'm serious.

— Rush Limbaugh

Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and…

— Eddie Izzard

“It's a surreal experience to have your personhood be reduced to a prop.”

— Alok Vaid-Menon

Cisgender actors don't take trans roles out of malice. I think it's just failure to realize the context behind having cisgender people…

— Nicole Maines

I think that a lot of people don't understand how much discrimination transgender people actually face. They think that we're just kind…

— Jazz Jennings

“Parsons argued that medicine was a social institution that regulated social deviance through the provision of medical diagnoses for nonconforming behavior. Medicine…

— Sheila Jeffreys

I don't believe that a transgender fighter should have to disclose her personal medical history to other female fighters before they fight.

— Fallon Fox

A lot of insurance companies don't protect transgender people because they think it's medically unnecessary, but we deserve to be covered, and…

— Jazz Jennings

The Washington Post speaking out against state legislation that he believed would let businesses deny services to gay, lesbian and transgender people.…

— Laura Sydell

I'm not generalizing anymore about men and women, because I think these old terms of "masculine" and "feminine" are going very fast…

— Kim Longinotto

I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you…

— Cate Blanchett

I definitely feel that society sets expectations for transgender people to fit in and makes us feel as if we have to…

— Jazz Jennings

“The people who claim that being transgender is a choice are right on one regard. Living freely as the person you were…

— Ian Thomas Malone

Liberals got gay marriage, and now they got this transgender thing going and at full speed. The things that are being aimed…

— Rush Limbaugh

I want to create a place where trans people and our allies could come together to share experiences, information and ideas. Being…

— Chaz Bono

I get a singular comment that's very revealing: "I didn't know what to expect." Every time I hear that I think it's…

— Jeffrey Tambor

“That night I looked Stephanie [Burt] up online and started reading more about her work...I kept encountering a striking factoid...: she’s often…

— Mitch Kellaway

All women have a complicated relationship to beauty, but as a transgender woman it's a bit more complicated. There's a lot of…

— Andrej Pejic

I feel, in the sense that if you're heterosexual, if you're bisexual, if you're gay, if you're a lesbian, if you're transgender,…

— Craig David

I don't even think Trump knows what transgender means. He probably thinks transgender people are those cars that turn into robots.

— Patti Harrison

Love doesn't care if you're gay, straight, or transgender. Your heart's gonna get broken. You're gonna turn into a crazy person.

— Rumer Willis

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.

— Jill Soloway

For transgender kids who are struggling, I want them to know they're not alone. They shouldn't be afraid to step out of…

— Jazz Jennings

“If we start preemptively cutting out parts of who we are because they’re ‘not feminist enough’, then we’ve failed before we’ve begun.”

— C. N. Lester

I really would like to be an advocate for LGBT youth or transgender youth, or transgender people in general.

— Violet Chachki

I think being a teenager is a difficult journey in and of itself, but being transgender makes it that much harder.

— Jazz Jennings

Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

— Libba Bray

I'm saying goodbye to people's perception of me and who I am, I'm not saying goodbye to me, because this has always…

— Bruce Jenner

In my head I feel like I'm a female transgender to male but also like a drag queen.

— Trisha Paytas

I don't like 'transgender.' It got so politically correct. I like transsexual - it sounds like a 1950s scandal magazine.

— Amanda Lepore

We have some amazing people that are standing up for transgender people, and it's very cool to see that.

— Vanessa Ray

I don't think we should be discriminating against anyone. Transgender people are people and deserve the best we can do for them.

— Orrin Hatch

There are so few books for little kids that actually mention the word transgender and explain what it is in simple terms.

— Jazz Jennings

I had the idea that I'm going to make a trans-genre film about a transgender woman.

— Sebastian Lelio

I may never transition, but that doesn't make my mind and heart any less of a man

— Taelor Chardae