Following 'Detransition, Baby,' I felt like there was pressure on me to do something witty and sparkling. And I was like, 'Well,… — Torrey Peters Expectations Copy Share Image
I made friends easily. People thought I was competent. But the more I leaned into masculinity, the more opaque I became to… — Torrey Peters Emotions Copy Share Image
We all get a body, then we say how we want that body to be interpreted by the world, and it's a… — Torrey Peters Body 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 Gender Copy Share Image
I was learning to use a chainsaw because I had to cut the trees for firewood and build a bridge on the… — 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 Energy 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
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 Copy Share Image
The first of any minority group to do something never has a great time. It is not much fun but it important… — Torrey Peters Change Copy Share Image
My mom grew up in the 1950s on a chinchilla farm just beyond the Minneapolis suburbs. My grandparents called their little enterprise… — 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
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 American writer Copy Share Image
We all go through transitions, whether it's divorce, or any number of things, and the way we talk right now is very… — Torrey Peters Analogy Copy Share Image
You can speak universally by writing your specifics. That's historically been the case with authors like Philip Roth writing about New Jersey… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
For me, as a trans writer, is the Philip Roth trajectory available to me? Could I be commenting on American stuff long… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
A lot of the big American social novels are just these domestic novels, like Jonathan Franzen or whoever, They have these domestic… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
There's a self that I want to be... as some ideal person who is actualised. Then there's all the actual particulars of… — Torrey Peters Identity 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… — 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… — Torrey Peters Beauty 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… — Torrey Peters Body Copy Share Image
