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“Being transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“Gender affects everybody, so whether you're trans or not, gender is fucking you up. -Jac, 2013”
― Rhea Ewing, Fine: A Comic About Gender

“However, the answer "Some people simply are transgender" doesn't seem to satisfy certain people, so they may feel compelled to seek out some kind of alternative explanation. Once again, this isn't the result of pure curiosity- after all, we don't actually understand why most people turn out to be cisgender, yet very few people ever inquire about that outcome!”
― Julia Serano, Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back

“Not all trans people started out feeling like a different gender trapped in their skin. Some find themself a little at a time, a door inside that unlocks and reveals new doors, and new doors after that, and so on.”
― Cory McCarthy, Man o' War

“The only reason they tolerated the transgender community in some of these movements was because we were gung-ho, we were front liners. We didn’t take no shit from nobody. We had nothing to lose. You all had rights. We had nothing to lose. I’ll be the first one to step on any organization, any
politician’s toes if I have to, to get the rights for my community.”
― Sylvia Rivera, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle

“In a way, it didn't. They didn't start the fight. I did. That's the part only my therapist knows. I didn't mind that they spat at me and shoved into me as I walked across the football field on my way home. I'd learned to ignore that. I snapped and started the fight because they said something awful about Ever.
Irrational gallantry, maybe? I never asked for this type of masculinity, but there it was.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Even If We Break

“Sexual-patriarchal relational systems overwhelm, from media glorifying sexual connection above other forms of intimacy and interaction, to medical, economic, and legal structures that automatically privilege sexual/domestic/romantic dyadic partnerships and genetic family bonds over other chosen platonic relationships and support systems. Oppressive social structures and micro-aggressive interpersonal interactions constantly grate on us, damaging our health and maybe even pushing us to seek care, but often available formal assistance is part of the same harmful system and populated by the same privileged persons.”
― Zena Sharman, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care

“Mr. Harris kept glancing up and down Omar’s body, lingering around his chest and his groin. At first, Omar pretended not to notice. It was a compulsive kind of looking, one that cis people indulged in when they believed they could do it without being seen, though it was so common to catch them looking that their lack of shame was obvious.”
― Zeyn Joukhadar , Kink: Stories

“You’re not a woman!â€� I say, “I don’t know what I
am if I’m not a woman.”
― Marsha P. Johnson, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle

“I’m not even in the back of the bus. My community is being pulled by a rope around our neck by the bumper of the damn bus that stays in the front. Gay liberation but transgender nothing!”
― Sylvia Rivera, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle

“You told me I couldn't live as a gay man, but now I am going to die as one.”
― Lou Sullivan

“In a way, it didn't. They didn't start the fight. I did. That's the part only my therapist knows.
I didn't mind that they spat at me and shoved into me as I walked across the football field on my way home. I'd learned to ignore that. I snapped and started the fight because they said something awful about Ever.
Irrational gallantry, maybe? I never asked for this type of masculinity, but there it was.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Even If We Break

“Trouble is, that's exactly what scares me. I don't feel safe with many people. I have literally never asked someone out on a date before. I don't have a clue how to go about it. I never did crushes before. I didn't feel comfortable enough in my own skin. I didn't know how much of a hang-up gender would be for other people—or disability, for that matter. If you're constantly told people like you don't have meaningful relationships, you eventually believe it.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Even If We Break

“Trouble is, that's exactly what scares me. I don't feel safe with many people. I have literally never asked someone out on a date before. I don't have a clue how to go about it. I never did crushes before. I didn't feel comfortable enough in my own skin. I didn't know how much of a hang-up gender would be for other people—or disability, for that matter. If you're constantly told people like you don't have meaningful relationships, it's hard to believe you're allowed to try.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Even If We Break

“I bury my face in the crook of his neck and laugh at nothing in particular, at how funny the world can be, at how weird it is that he’s a boy. How weird it is that he’s a boy.”
― Meredith Russo , Birthday

“The existence of trans people presents a threat to one of the central tenets of the white-supremacist, capitalist state - that we all need to just accept our place within its violent system.”
― Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons

“Trans people's counter-conception of gender as a joyful and imaginative experience rattles these 'trans-exclusionary radical feminists' or TERFs, for whom gender is simply indicative of one's biologically defined position in a hierarchy of violence.”
― Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons

“I am nonbinary. I am a sex worker. I am Espi.”
― Espi Kvlt, X Marks The Spot - A Nonbinary Anthology

“Queer Theory is about liberation from the normal, especially where it comes to norms of gender and sexuality. This is because it regards the very existence of categories of sex, gender and sexuality to be oppressive. Because queer Theory derives directly from postmodernism, it is radically skeptical that these categories are based in any biological reality. It thus ignores biology nearly completely (or places it downstream of socialization) and focuses upon them as social constructions perpetuated in language.”
― Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

“Like the other postmodern Theories, queer Theory is a political project, and its aim is to disrupt any expectations that people should fit into a binary position with regard to sex or gender, and to undermine any assumptions that sex or gender are related to or dictate sexuality.”
― Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

“In Marxist thought, power is like a weight, pressing down on the proletariat. For Foucault, power operated more like a grid, running through all layers of society and determining what people held to be true and, consequently, how they spoke about it.”
― Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

“Pero querete, tarada.
Querete mucho, porque si vos no te querés, no te va a querer nadie. Querete a
pesar de la gente de mierda que busca convencerte de que estás enferma. Querete
para poder sobrevivir. Querete para poder cuidar a las que son como vos, o como
yo, pero no se quieren. Querete aunque te traten peor que a un hongo que crece
en la comida. ¡Total, qué saben los hombres sobre los hongos! Vos elegís a qué
lado aferrarte. Un lado te va a hacer crecer, el otro lado te va a hacer destruir.”
― Juan Solá, La Chaco

“They have been brainwashed by this fucked up system that has condemened us and by doctors that call us a disease and a bunch
of freaks. Our family and friends have also condemned us because of their lack
of true knowledge.”
― Sylvia Rivera, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle

“Any creative writing teacher worth their salt will tell you that a great story never starts at the beginning, it starts when something changes.”
― Juno Dawson, The Gender Games: The Problem with Men and Women, from Someone Who Has Been Both

“people are so wary of transgender progress because we highlight how something we often consider carved in stone can be so easily manipulated”
― Juno Dawson, The Gender Games: The Problem with Men and Women, from Someone Who Has Been Both

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“Although the designs of the trans and gender identity questions in the Scottish, English and Welsh census differ, they both attempt to navigate the same ambition: avoid use of the term ‘cisâ€�. Other census questions, related to Identity characteristics, ask respondents to select the option to which they most closely identify. Questions require respondents to confirm an identity (for example, ‘I am white Scottishâ€�) rather than negate an identity (for example, ‘I am not Scottish Indianâ€�). The design of the trans and gender identity questions depart from this approach are they require the majority of respondents (those who identify as cis, estimated to be around 99 per cent of the population) to answer the way that negates and identity (‘I am not transâ€�). Ashley has noted how, in English, ‘currently, no word exists in our vocabulary for the broad category which includes being trans and being cis”
― Kevin Guyan, Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action