Torrey Peters

The premise of any discussion I have is not to debate my humanity. I refuse to engage on that level. It makes…

— Torrey Peters

People don't care about facts anyway; in my country, we have 'alternative facts.' But if you can make somebody feel something -…

— Torrey Peters

The fact that someone like me can exist terrifies some people. Because: 'What if you had control of your body and you…

— Torrey Peters

Certainly, not all trans people like my writing.

— Torrey Peters

Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of my literary heroes. This distresses many of my female, queer, and trans friends: Torrey, you have…

— Torrey Peters

I have a lot of sympathy for people who detransition.

— Torrey Peters

I think hanging out is the best incubation for cultural creation.

— Torrey Peters

At certain moments in my life, I have stumbled upon a beauty so extreme, I have stepped back in alarm. There are…

— Torrey Peters

I'm obsessed with this book 'Independent People,' by Halldor Laxness.

— Torrey Peters

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…

— Torrey Peters

When I'm open to beauty's true power, I believe it changes me for the better.

— Torrey Peters

People are going to make mistakes no matter what because that's what being human is.

— Torrey Peters

I mean, I don't relate to characters who are perfect. If someone offers up somebody as a role model, I'm going to…

— Torrey Peters

At the time that 'Detransition, Baby' came out, I was really resistant to having anybody say that I was representing trans women.…

— Torrey Peters

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…

— Torrey Peters

I made friends easily. People thought I was competent. But the more I leaned into masculinity, the more opaque I became to…

— Torrey Peters

The things trans people feel are things cis people feel.

— Torrey Peters

We're actually all constantly, even in minor ways, making choices to confirm or affirm the gender that we want to have.

— Torrey Peters

If I'm given a platform, I have to take it and try to share it as best I can.

— Torrey Peters

I got super into sauna. I studied Finnish sauna design, then ended up building a wood-fired sauna from scratch in the middle…

— Torrey Peters

When I start working early, I write things that I wouldn't if all my defences were up; I discover the emotional core…

— Torrey Peters

When you think about fascism and right-wing governments, oftentimes people think about European history, but it's been flaring up on and off…

— Torrey Peters

Weird, for me, is a good term. Freaky and weird, I think of them as positive descriptors.

— Torrey Peters

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

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