Trans Rights Quotes

#1. Trans rights formation that mimics the models and strategies of the lesbian and gay rights framework is growing, and there are many significant strategy disagreements between those building that work and those doing racial and economic justice centered trans work.

Dean Spade

#2. A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines.

Sarah Hall

#3. So sometimes what takes you down can be used to raise you up again.

Laura Wiess

#4. I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people who were gay or lesbian or trans or people who aren't blonde haired and blue-eyed. I have short hair, and I am covered in tattoos. I like showing people that it's within their rights to be different.

Ruby Rose

#5. What about your mom?" "She offered to take me to Planned Parenthood to get the Pill and told me to make Adam get tested for various diseases. In the meantime, she ordered me to buy condoms now. She even gave me ten bucks to start my supply.

Gayle Forman

#6. The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.

Pat Toomey

#7. What's the difference?" I asked him. "Between the love of your life, and your soulmate?"
"One is a choice, and one is not.

Tarryn Fisher

#8. There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better.

Joyce Carol Oates

#9. It's funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I'd get married.

Regina King

#10. More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.

Dean Spade

#11. Crime Squad would have been great if it weren't for the murders. Murders were shit. Murders meant long hours, writing reports, endless meetings and loads of stressed-out people. But at least they got free food from the cafeteria when they worked overtime.

Jo Nesbo