“Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.comTagged: LGBTQ+, Parenting, Children, Identity
“They ask me if I was born in the wrong body. As if gender is that simple… I am not trapped in my body. I am trapped in other people’s perceptions of my body… I don’t want to hate my body for this. My body is not wrong. The way people talk about my body is wrong. But my body is the only thing I can c…”— Ollie Schminkey, outspokenwordpoetry.blogspot.dkTagged: Transsexual, Transgender, LGBTQ+, Gender Identity
“It had nothing to do with hating my body, I just love it enough to let it go, I treat it like a house, and when your house is falling apart, you do not evacuate, you make it comfortable enough to house all your insides, you make it pretty enough to invite guests over, you make the floorboards strong…”— Lee Mokobe, ted.comTagged: LGBTQ+ Poetry, Transgender, Body Positive
“Trans* people are exactly who they say they are — no matter what the culture or media would lead us to believe”— Janet Mock, thebuffalobelles.comTagged: Transgender, Transsexual
“My hope is that you can seek a body presentation that supports your life and creates a sense of overall well-being. You deserve to feel self-love and to feel safe and at home in the body that you inhabit.”— Dr. Melody Moore, nationaleatingdisorders.orgTagged: Transgender, Body Positive
“Here’s to women with prominent Adam’s apples, five o’clock shadows and deep voices. Here’s to women like me.”— Laura Kate, medium.comTagged: Transsexual, MTF
“People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build muscles and got breast implants and nose jobs so they'd resemble their favorite movie stars. They changed names and majors and jobs and husbands and wives.…”— Ellen Wittlinger, amazon.comTagged: gender, LGBTQ+, Transgender
“Nobody knows as yet what is normal - we only know what is customary.”— Dr. Harry Benjamin, profeminist.tumblr.comTagged: Gender Norms, Transgender, LGBTQ+, normal
“Do you dwell on everyone’s junk when you meet them? Like, all you do all day long is think about dicks and janes? Is that your thing, Bailey? You can’t stop thinking about what’s in everyone’s pants?”— Brie Spangler, amazon.comTagged: LGBTQ+, Transsexual, Transgender
“I would like them to understand that we (transgender) are people. We’re human beings, and this is a human life. This is reality for us, and all we ask for is acceptance and validation for what we say that we are. It’s a basic human right.”— Andreja Pejic, vogue.comTagged: Transgender, LGBTQ+, Acceptance, Fashion, models
“Sometimes I forget that sidewalks can be safe. Sometimes I confuse their shooting eyes for the bullet that met yours. Sometimes I imagine the phone call my mother would get. Can almost hear my sobbing friends. Smell the lillies on my casket. Touch my girlfriend’s black dress. But brother, I am tryin…”— Miles Walser, foxthepoet.blogspot.dkTagged: LGBTQ+ Poetry, Transgender
“I believe when we love someone, we respect them, and we listen to them; we feel that their voice matters. And — and we let them dictate the terms of who they are and what their story is.”— Laverne Cox, youtube.comTagged: Anti-Hate, LGBTQ+, Transgender, Respect
“Include everyone, no matter their gender, sexual orientation, race or religion. We are all human beings and we are part of society.”— Lea T, refinery29.ukTagged: Transsexual, Inclusion, Acceptance, Tolerance, Anti-Hate
“But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.”— Ellen Wittlinger, amazon.comTagged: gender, LGBTQ+, Transgender
“This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. It's a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the victim. We must begin blaming our culture, which stigmatizes, demeans and strips trans women of their humanity.”— Janet Mock, amazon.comTagged: Transsexual, Domestic Violence, Victim Blaming, Transphobia
“I understand you named me while I was unable to speak, but I have found my true voice. Now it’s my turn to tell everyone what my name is.”— hyunilsbf, hyunilsbf.tumblr.comTagged: Transgender, Transsexual
“I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.comTagged: Reinvent Yourself, reinvention, Tired, Existential Crisis
“There is a man with pamphlets talking about a God. I ask him if God loves his Children. He gives me a confident ‘Yes’ I ask him if God loves homosexuals. He tells me ‘No’. I ask him if homosexuals are God’s Children. He said nothing. I do not believe he has heard the Question.”— Atlanta Team, youtube.comTagged: LGBTQ+, Religion, Spoken Word
“Transgender people have used public restrooms for the last sixty years, and a mass epidemic of trans*-related sexual assault has not occurred. You may not realize that you’ve very possibly already shared a restroom with one of us. We just want to live our lives, enjoy the pursuit of happiness and em…”— Laura A. Jacobs, huffingtonpost.comTagged: Transgender, Trans WOC
“America needs more trans people who are open about their transitions. Who don’t try to pass. Who insist that beautiful can mean a lot of different things.”— Laura Kate, medium.comTagged: Transsexual, beauty
“You are not any less of a man just because you have to take your binder off at night.”— trans-dysphoria-blues, trans-dysphoria-blues.tumblr.comTagged: Transgender
“At the beginning there was a lot of fear, but I came to the point of knowing I can't be that fearful or let that fear traumatize me or prevent me from doing the work I want to do.”— Geena Rocero, cosmopolitan.comTagged: Fear, Courage, LGBTQ+, Bravery
“It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen & visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.”— Laverne Cox, instagram.comTagged: Transsexual, Transgender
“I wonder how long it will be before the trans suicide notes start to feel redundant, before we realize that our bodies become lessons about sin way before we learn how to love them. Like God didn't save all this breath and mercy, like my blood is not the wine that washed over Jesus' feet.”— Lee Mokobe, ted.comTagged: LGBTQ+ Poetry, Transgender, Suicide Awareness
“Most trans women don’t look like Laverne Cox or Caitlyn Jenner. Most of us look … well, like trans women. We might have a visible Adam’s apple. We might have real trouble hiding that five o’clock shadow. We might have broad shoulders or big hands and feet. We might be really tall or have a deep voic…”— Laura Kate, medium.comTagged: Transsexual, beauty
“I asked Jesus to fix me, and when he did not answer I befriended silence in the hopes that my sin would burn.”— Lee Mokobe, ted.comTagged: Spoken Word, LGBTQ+ Poetry, God, Losing Faith, TED
“I absolutely do not accept the insistence that my trans body is grotesque and dangerous or that my health care is unnecessary or that I should simply not go to the bathroom. If challenging those narratives costs us elections, then those are elections I will gladly lose. We cannot be patient in our d…”— chase strangio, medium.comTagged: Transgender
“my mother told me of the miracle I was, said I could grow up to be anything I want. I decided to be a boy... I was the mystery of an anatomy, a question asked but not answered, tightroping between awkward boy and apologetic girl.”— Lee Mokobe, ted.comTagged: LGBTQ+ Poetry
“We take a breath, wipe off the spit And keep fighting to live another day”— Lj Mark, hellopoetry.comTagged: Resilience, LGBTQ+, Adversity
“I am the coolest oppressed kid in the room— my oppression out-oppresses all the normal gay boys. My gay boy friends are bathroom bouncers, guarding the men's room door while I pee.”— Miles Walser, youtube.comTagged: LGBTQ+ Poetry