Deserve Quote by Carmen Carrera

Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.

— Caitlyn Jenner

Trans people are beautiful. It's a different kind of beauty, and it should be recognized and respected.

— Carmen Carrera

Trans women should be accepted and celebrated, whether they look a little bit more on the masculine side of the spectrum or they're the…

— Trace Lysette

More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and…

— Dean Spade

Any woman's right to self-identify is a personal freedom I fight for, and those women who claim trans women are not women are perpetuators…

— Janet Mock

Trans people deserve something vital. They deserve your respect... If you want to call me names, make jokes, doubt my intentions, go ahead, because…

— Bruce Jenner

I strongly support the rights of transgender individuals. I will not denigrate or deny their struggles. But I am concerned about the potential bad…

— Matt Gaetz

It's important to have transgender representation because we represent the forthcoming generation, and their new perception on the standard of beauty - which I…

— Carmen Carrera

Trans women are women, we're just a different type of women.

— Trace Lysette

“Feministing writer Jos Truitt puts it, “trans women are disrespected and treated terribly when they don’t pass, but if they do pass they’re called…

— Anne Helen Petersen

The transgender community deserves the dignity and respect that most people take for granted.

— Ed Murray

One particular debate that I have seen play out again and again is whether trans people who have more traditional gender expressions or who…

— Dean Spade