Mentor Quote by Rebecca Root

Any way that I can use my career or my platform to push along transgender visibility in the mainstream and society serves me on…

— Laura Jane Grace

I love talking to the youth and helping them as much as I can or encouraging them, if I can help them at all.

— Sheila E

I want to help transgender individuals who might be struggling realize that they have to love themselves and stay true to who they are…

— Jazz Jennings

I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

— Bea Arthur

I really would like to be an advocate for LGBT youth or transgender youth, or transgender people in general.

— Violet Chachki

I work closely with a number of charities from food pantries to drug rehabilitation to natural disaster relief to preventing sexual exploitation of young…

— Beyonce Knowles

Even before 'Pose,' I was involved in activism and advocating for my community in various ways. I didn't see that stopping with my entry…

— Indya Moore

I'm always trying to mentor young women. I speak on college campuses and I have events in my own studio where I open it…

— Emily Lazar

There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.

— Edward Hirsch

My grandma was a nurse, and she helped a lot of transgender clients, so growing up, I was very aware of that, and my…

— Farrah Abraham

Remember, if you don't promote yourself, then no one else will! Likewise, believe in yourself--or no one else will either.

— Donald Trump

I believe that I am transgender to help people understand differences. It allows me to gain perspective, to be more accepting of others, because…

— Josie Totah