Activist Quote by Dean Spade

I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly…

— Dean Spade

There is an awful lot of work to do to protect trans folks. We are still disproportionally poor and administratively and institutionally discriminated against…

— Chelsea Manning

I believe that the trans movement is at a crossroads. We have achieved an unprecedented level of visibility in the last couple of years.…

— Chelsea Manning

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

I wrote Normal Life using concepts that have been helpful to me, and hoping to offer those as accessible tools for thinking differently about…

— Dean Spade

Instead of focusing on what the law says about trans people, which is really what the law is saying about itself as a protector…

— Dean Spade

We need trans activists who are good, smart, informed and who can be strong voices against transphobia, homophobia and racism.

— Lux Pascal

Most Americans need to be told discrimination against trans people is against the law. Instead of looking at us as people, they look at…

— Carmen Carrera

There's still an immense amount of discrimination that happens against trans people.

— Alaska

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

Many queer and trans people live - and lived - in our prison and jails, in our homeless shelters, in run-down houses and apartment…

— Chelsea Manning

I'm unequivocal about my belief in the rights of our marginalized communities, including our trans community, because I'm a minority myself.

— Humza Yousaf