“today a man on the street pointed to me & said "what the hell is that!?" i wanted to turn around, tell him that i got this dress on sale & i got this body for free but you have been making me pay for both ever since.”— Alok Vaid Menon, alokvmenon.com
“The fact that cis women never seem to grasp that trans women have a different relationship with being addressed as ‘man/dude/bro’ is endlessly worrying to me. You can’t use a word that’s explicitly a gendered term - literally the word ‘man’ or ‘brother’ in an ungendered way. It would be like me cook…”— trantifa, trantifa.tumblr.com
“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.com
“I think the media is really comfortable reading about trans women of color as victims after they die, but if we have the audacity to survive, we are immediately criminalized; that is what the system does.”— Laverne Cox, inthesetimes.com