Chaz Bono Quotes

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• There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people,…
• Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.
• When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they…
• As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.
• I wanted to show America a different kind of man. If there was someone like me when I was growing up, my whole life would…
• I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.
• I want to create a place where trans people and our allies could come together to share experiences, information and ideas. Being transgender or loving…
• Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was…
• A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.
• What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
• Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I…
• People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.
• So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I was a lesbian,…
• It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your…
• Being self-supporting is important to me.
• Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
• I came out around 25 publicly.
• I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.
• When I was really little, it was very clear to me that I felt like a boy, and my friends were all boys.
• It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous…

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