Quotes tagged ‘Gender Identity’

“The American creed that were all created equal was written long ago, but the genius of every generation of Americans has open it wider and wider and wider to include those who have been excluded in a previous generation. That’s why it’s never gathered any dust in our history books. It’s still alive…”

— Joe Biden, rev.com

“The reason is what we believe. The most powerful idea in the history of the world, I think beats in the heart of the people of this country. It beats in all of us. No matter your race, your ethnicity, no matter your gender identity, your sexual orientation, no matter your faith, it beats in the hear…”

— Joe Biden, rev.com

“Hannah: This is what happens when you don't respect women. Lucas: I respect women. My mom's my best friend! Thor: What about me?”

— Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky, Beth Stelling, Thor, Brady Noon, imdb.com

“You have to dig through the soil and hit the gravel layers and then blast through the granite. None of these things are related to your child at all.”

— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com

“The usage of chosen or true names versus 'deadnames' in the trans and non-binary communities is more than a source of identity, it is also an issue of mental health and safety.”

— AJ Willingham, cnn.com

“This construct it is like — strength is strength, and whimsical is whimsical, and rude is rude, and everyone has all of that in them, but thats whats like 'namaste' is, like we all have all of that going on in us, I think?”

— Jonathan Van Ness, out.com

“I feel more myself in boy's clothes. Actually, Dad, I don't think I'm a girl at all.”

— Oanh Ly, Salli Richardson Whitfield, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Lee Toland Krieger, Ross Maxwell, Rob Seidenglanz, Michael Goi, Matthew Barry, Alex Garcia Lopez, Mj Kaufman, Christina Ham, Theo, Lachlan Watson, imdb.com

“It’s a real challenge to raise kids this way in the world we live in.”

— Basic Dad, melmagazine.com

“I know I'm a little different from everyone else, but I'm still a human being. That's what I'd like you to realize. I'm just a regular person, not some monster. I feel the same things everyone else does, act the same way. Sometimes, though, that small difference feels like an abyss. But I guess ther…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“My awkwardness went away, and I stretched out, flexed, showed my biceps. He smiled, taking pleasure in my happiness.”

— Claire Rudy Foster, nytimes.com

“I never feel comfortable in the women's department. I feel like I'm just a little too close to trying on a dress.”

— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“We are all entitled to come into an awareness of our sexual orientation privately and on our own terms.”

— Ellen Page, facebook.com

“My lifelong gender dysphoria has certainly been a primary inspiration for my entire career as a researcher and writer. I have never for a moment felt female—but neither have I ever felt male either. I regard my ambiguous position between the sexes as a privilege that has given me special access to a…”

— Camille Paglia, freebeacon.com

“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.dk