Being Transgender Quotes

#1. I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.

Jill Soloway

#2. Effective immediately, transgender Americans may serve openly, and they can no longer be discharged or otherwise separated from the military just for being transgender.

Ashton Carter

#3. Being transgender and in need of surgery is a bit like wearing a tattoo advertising something that you have no intention of selling, and constantly being asked to represent what you are not selling.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

#4. Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of the human condition that makes each individual unique, and something over which we have no control. We are who we are in the deepest recesses of our minds, hearts and identities.

Linda Thompson

#5. Here was a Jewish man-turned-woman making fun of Jewish men for not being manly enough.

Susan Faludi

#6. It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being "pre-op" or "post-op" when it would so clearly be degrading and demeaning to regularly describe all boys and men as being either "circumcised" or "uncircumcised.

Julia Serano

#7. At a crucial point in my early twenties, being able to end a pregnancy had restored to me what I regarded as a normal life. I remember that it saved me.

Susan Faludi

#8. While there is no shame in being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex - or even straight (but not narrow) - there is most certainly shame and dishonor in being a homophobe, a transphobe and a bigot.

Christina Engela

#9. This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.

Jim Capaldi

#10. I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.

Candis Cayne

#11. I really don't understand how parents can talk about gay couples' PDA as a problem or a transgender teen's suicide and not the fact that too many of our kids are being murdered in the schools and on the streets.

Steven Petrow

#12. He waited until he heard sounds of sleep, which didn't take long. Then he prayed, to the Devil.

Mark Kirkbride

#13. New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said that he is open to letting transgender people serve in the military. He said there's no reason to prevent people from being generals just because of their privates.

Jimmy Fallon

#14. You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#15. A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

Leonard Cohen

#16. I am an American. I love this country.

Paul Tsongas

#17. There is a great superficiality in today's evangelical world. Many Bible-believing Christians share the contemporary case for self-gratification, emotionalism, and anti-intellectualism. Many people who believe in the Bible have never read it.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#18. The past is just something that's over.

Christopher Isherwood

#19. To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and then - because those prices are nominally higher than gold prices - to say that they are inflated, relatively to gold, is a perfect absurdity.

Lysander Spooner

#20. I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

Rabih Alameddine

#21. Life is a dancing dew drop on the tip of a leaf.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Trying to always be the nice guy, to appear good, can be limiting. Avoiding confrontation has closed up a number of possibilities for me.

Stefan Sagmeister

#23. I think the best article was the article about radical feminists being against transgender women. I found that the most fascinating article and I absolutely loved it. I love battles within the gay community or feminist community. I love radical theorists.

John Waters

#24. Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

Pope Francis

#25. Sin is not some demonic thing. It's just our perverse tendency to fuck things up, to favor the short term over the long term, the lower over the higher.

David Brooks

#26. Find your own technique.

John French Sloan

#27. What was the point of being himself if he had to be alone?

Austin Chant

#28. He starts to hum, a haunting melody. No words ride the music, only the familiar notes of a forgotten song.

A.G. Howard

#29. I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.

Barney Frank