Top 66 Quotes About Gender Identity
#1. I am proud to state that every national Jewish organization we support enforces non-discrimination practices around sexual orientation and that more than 70 percent have written policies in place covering gender identity and expression.
Lynn Schusterman
#2. Lesson number one: "Sexual orientation is who you go to bed with," he told Spack. "Gender identity is who you go to bed as.
Amy Ellis Nutt
#3. the problem of gender identity is our evasion of the implications of power and our may-I-say-"feminine" inclinations to make nice. War is not nice.
June Jordan
#4. There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
Felicia Day
#5. That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project.
Alison Bechdel
#6. All young people, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, need someone who's got their back.
James Lecesne
#7. We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity
Dennis Prager
#8. To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are. All human beings deserve equal treatment no matter their gender identity or sexuality. To be perceived as what you say you are is a basic human right,
Andrej Pejic
#9. I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to.
Chaz Bono
#10. Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one.
Robert Brady
#11. The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.
Andrew Comiskey
#12. There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender ... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.
Judith Butler
#13. Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.
Andrew Solomon
#14. So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I was a lesbian, and didn't realize that that wasn't the case. It was the fact that I was a man and a heterosexual man. The issue wasn't my sexual orientation, but rather my gender identity.
Chaz Bono
#15. So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.
Caitlyn Jenner
#16. Gender identity is our internal response to a social construction that attempts to make a connection between a person's biological makeup and their eventual role in society.
Sam Killermann
#17. Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to ... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.
Caitlyn Jenner
#18. Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.
Hal Duncan
#19. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.
Will Self
#20. Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act ... a doing rather than a being.
Judith Butler
#21. It doesn't occur to so many people that if you don't have a clear heterosexual, gender confirming identity that there are parts of day-to-day life - like using a bathroom or getting your clothes - that just aren't going to be as easy.
Lena Dunham
#22. For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.
Gloria Ng
#23. I see signs of it wherever
racial, gender, sexual, and class identity politics are no longer totalizing but transcended-not negated-in creative exchange with other
Victor Anderson
#24. And in most queer communities, regardless of one's sex or identity, people who are more masculine in gender expression are almost always viewed as more valid and attractive than their feminine counterparts.
Julia Serano
#25. Let's stop pretending that we have all the answers, because when it comes to gender, none of us is fucking omniscient.
Kate Bornstein
#26. Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.
Jerzy Kosinski
#27. Gender is like a Rubik's Cube with one hundred squares per side, and every time you twist it to take a look at another angle, you make it that much harder a puzzle to solve.
Sam Killermann
#30. I cannot see that keeping the status quo intact would help in any way to solve the problems of inequality or suffering in this world. I would go for taking action towards change instead of accepting the inevitable.
Elina Juusola
#31. Sometimes I don't know what I am. But what I would like to be on the outside -- what I want other people to see -- is a girl.
Alyssa Brugman
#32. Sometimes boys grew up to be women. And girls grew up to be men.
Leah Raeder
#34. Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night.
Richard Price
#35. I don't feel like my films are about gender; they are about identity - but a different slant on identity.
Lisa Cholodenko
#36. Inside every man there is a potential woman and inside every woman resides a potential man.
John Maxwell Taylor
#37. Bodies are not only biological phenomena but also complex social creations onto which meanings have been variously composed and imposed according to time and space.
Katrina Karkazis
#39. The first thing you're going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl?
Jeff Garvin
#40. I can't blame you for trying to categorize me. It's a human instinct. It's why scientists are, to this day, completely flabbergasted by the duck-billed platypus: it's furry like a mammal, but lays eggs like a bird. It defies conventional classification.
I AM THE PLATYPUS (Coo coo ka-choo)
Jeff Garvin
#41. Compulsory heterosexuality produces not the homosexual but differences, conflicts and hierarchies among homosexualities at the level of identity, culture, and politics.
Steven Seidman
#42. Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.
Judith Butler
#43. If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.
Jon Meacham
#44. It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how aware a person is of the options. How sad for a person to be missing out on some expression of identity, just for not knowing there are options
Kate Bornstein
#46. Despite all of the social advances in women's rights and the push for gender equality in the workplace, it seems like modern men still want a woman that they can take care of at home.
Shannon Mullen
#47. So now I'm thinking about it. I'm imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, "I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls.
Michael Thomas Ford
#48. The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate.
Jess Row
#49. Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"
they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)
Cornel West
#50. It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.
Kate Bornstein
#51. Young men list music as their focus and means of identity
before sport, before TV, before cinema
while women cite fashion as most important, with music an ambivalent second.
Lucy O'Brien
#52. I can understand why you would want to be literally out of your own heard, because being inside your own head is unbearable.
Alyssa Brugman
#53. One day stores will no longer have gender classifications. Instead the consumer decides how and what they want, rather than the social engineering of corporations. The concept of gender will be extinct.
Lorin Morgan-Richards
#54. If there's a place you should be able to put yourself first, it's in your own sexual fantasies.
Alyssa Brugman
#55. Being socialized female and spending my life "othered" by this world gives me a unique perspective. In the past, this has felt like shit. In the present, it feels pretty good. In the future I hope somebody loves me enough to watch me age ungracefully.
Harvey Katz
#56. Honey, there is no one right way to eat cannelloni.
Alyssa Brugman
#57. I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.
Charlotte Bronte
#58. We need to think about sex and gender in a more ecological kind of framework, understanding that changes in one environment inevitably impact changes in other environments. Gender here might be thought of more as a climate or ecosystem and less as an identity or discrete bodily location.
J. Jack Halberstam
#59. Whenever she imagined her child, grown up without interference from a judgemental world, she imagined its male and female halves as complementing each other, and as being secretly, almost magically powerful.
Kathleen Winter
#60. My throat closes against the words I can't swallow, not one more time. Because it's not true, what they're telling me
what they've been telling me since I was a child. There cannot be only one way to be a woman. My identity cannot be something I've never felt.
Nicole Hardy
#61. It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly ... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated.
Virginia Woolf
#62. I followed the trail out of the room, invigorated by the possibility of reinventing my own body. The meaning was mine, as long as I was with those who had the vision and vocabulary to understand my creation.
Nick Krieger
#63. True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.
Desmond Tutu
#64. I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte Bronte
#65. I'm never going to be happy, but I could get close now, I think. I could be almost normal. I could have a friend.
Alyssa Brugman
#66. I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.
Jess Row
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