“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 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
“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.com
“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.com
“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.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
“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.com
“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.com
“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.uk
“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.com
“Trans* people are exactly who they say they are — no matter what the culture or media would lead us to believe”— Janet Mock, thebuffalobelles.com
“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.com
“Clarice defeats Bill, who crumples to the ground, curled into a shaking form clearly meant to convey (an ableist vision of) monstrousness. And Clarice rescues femininity from the darkest depths of male violence: the lair of a trans woman.”— Jos Truitt, feministing.com
“If people who aren’t trans women want to advance a version of feminism that values trans women and prioritizes our struggles, they must reckon with the real harm that has been done to us in feminism’s name.”— Jos Truitt, feministing.com
“Trans women’s very existence (was seen as) an act of sexual violence against cis women, which supported the transmisogynistic feminist argument that trans women were violent men invading women’s spaces. These ideas were used by feminists to successfully exclude trans women from accessing women’s she…”— Jos Truitt, feministing.com