Forgotten Quote by Hari Nef

I've been told that I can't do things simply because I was trans.

— Carmen Carrera

I knew that I was trans when I was three years old. Well, I didn't know 'trans' because I didn't know there was a…

— Nicole Maines

I am transgender. I knew that I was for as long as I can remember.

— Nicole Maines

I lived my life in my 20s as a man. I was trans in my 20s, that was a thing I was and that…

— Torrey Peters

On my road to self-discovery, only certain terms were available - I didn't use 'trans' or 'transgender' until junior high school, but I was…

— Janet Mock

When I was growing up, I didn't know of anybody who was trans. There was always, like, this shame, anxiety thing around all of…

— Teddy Geiger

I was never going to become a beautiful, passable woman, and I was never going to be a man. It's a quandary. But the…

— Anohni

When you live this trans experience, there's a point and time in your life that you almost stop developing because you don't know where…

— Carmen Carrera

I can remember back to being 5 and looking in the mirror, feeling like a girl and wanting that. But growing up in Rochester,…

— Teddy Geiger

I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine…

— Patti Smith

There's this idea out there that, had I not been trans, the leaks and stuff would never have happened. But to my mind, those…

— Chelsea Manning

There's something gorgeously ambiguous about being trans. That's something I love about being trans, is that I use it to my advantage to be…

— Rebecca Root