Quotes tagged ‘Transgender’

(60 total)

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

“This technique could be used to help transgender children at an earlier age.”

“Some people did look at the real me and judge me as unlovable. Others adapted, learned, embraced.”

“There is no analogous act for cisgender people, because cisgender people's identities are not under question. If I call you 'he' when you're a non-trans woman the mislabelling is easily swatted away.”

— Shon Faye, twitter.com

“Today, let’s honor the bravery and conviction that it takes to be a trans. person in our world. Let’s show visibility and strength for those who are yet unable to live their truth. Unify against those who would wish us harm, and match their hate with love.”

— Jinkx Monsoon, twitter.com

“Trans boys and girls all around the world- don’t let anybody tell you that you’re not perfect just because you’re being who you are. Keep on going— embrace yourself. You are beautiful no matter what.”

— Cameron Kasky, twitter.com

“You're a man who dares to dance with the freaks. I perpetuate that deviance for you. Allow you to show the world that you live outside the box. But I know that's where it ends for us, and I understand. It comes with the territory of my complicated identity. But my my feelings for you are simpler. Th…”

— Gladys Rodríguez, Kem Nunn, Kurt Sutter, Venus Van Dam, Walton Goggins, imdb.com

“I was born of man, but I believe my true genesis happened a bit later, when I was stirred by the gods of love and beauty and transformed into an angel. Whose sole purpose is to bring light to the shadows and a little bit of joy to all those lost souls who can no longer find it.”

— Kem Nunn, Kurt Sutter, Venus Van Dam, Walton Goggins, imdb.com

“What the church mainly needs to do with transgender people is this: Listen. Since the church is still coming to know them, we need a stance of humility and a real willingness to learn. How do they suffer? What do they hope for? Where is God at work in their lives? Listen to them.”

— James Martin, SJ, twitter.com

“It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.”

— Willam Belli, enkiquotes.com

“The man who wrote the anti-trans bathroom bill just lost the election to a trans woman. Let that sink in.”

— Laura Bassett, twitter.com

“Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. As we remembers those killed by hatred let's also pledge to stand up to the increasingly vitriolic campaign of abuse we're seeing in some sections of the media. Trans rights are human rights.”

— Caroline Lucas, twitter.com

“What do you call it when two transgender midgets have sex? Micro trans-action”

— Kappa-Spock, reddit.com

“Raising children is hard as a trans parent. They see right through me.”

— Chooxch, reddit.com

“It’s nice to finally feel that maybe my body is trying to adapt to me instead of me trying to adapt to my body, like I was for 17½ years.”

— Skylar Kergil, bostonglobe.com

“When a trans woman is called a man, that is an act of violence.”

— Laverne Cox, youtube.com

“And I am sorry that this process is so slow and all you can do is wonder if you ever had a place You did You still do Don’t forget that Yours, Ethan P.S. I never hated you”

— Ethan Smith, youtube.com

“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.dk

“We are carcasses. Untouched boxes of condoms. We are public secrets, playground jokes, and horror films. We are costumes, stuffing, binding and makeup. We aren’t real men to them. Invisible til we’re screaming. They don’t remember our names until they read them on our tombstones.”

— Miles Walser, foxthepoet.blogspot.dk

“The body expresses the person. The relation between ‘us’ and our flesh is never accidental or incidental. Our souls and our bodies are partners, never—as gender theory asserts—strangers or even enemies.”

— Pope John Paul II, amazon.com