Community Quote by Chelsea Manning

The things trans people feel are things cis people feel.

— Torrey Peters

You wish that everyone knew what cisgender meant. Everyone has access to Google. You can find out what's appropriate to ask a trans person.

— Trace Lysette

I think that trans women have endured a lot and they compromise a lot when dealing with cis hetero men.

— Trace Lysette

A lot of cis people feel unable to discuss being attracted to trans women, and worry that some people will think they are closet…

— Rebecca Root

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

— Nicole Maines

Because trans people are marked as artificial, unnatural, and illegitimate, our bodies and identities are often open to public dissection. Plainly, cisgender folks often…

— Janet Mock

Trans women are conditioned to accept that society sees us as overly sexualized objects - even more so than how society already sexualizes cis…

— Trace Lysette

The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is…

— Jess Row

The fight for justice for the transgender community is largely invisible to our fellow citizens, despite the rampant systematic discrimination of trans people -…

— Chelsea Manning

Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional…

— Judith Butler

I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have…

— Judith Butler

They cannot have cis people making decisions for trans people, period.

— Chappell Roan