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“The hardest part has been learning how to take myself seriously when the entire world is constantly telling me that femininity is always inferior to masculinity”
― Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

“The biggest difference between boy and girls is how people treat them”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above

“That was When I realized that life was a multiple-choice test with two answerd: Male and Female, And I was None Of The Above.”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above

“One of the first significant, substantial purchases I made after starting testosterone, was a Compact Colt .45 1991 A1 automatic pistol. It's just about the best penis substitute I've ever waved at a sex partner. I love my gun. Can I get an a-a-ay-men? You better fucking believe I lo-o-ove my gun. I love to take it apart and put it back together and admire...oh,you sexy little death-machine...I suppose I oughta feel guilty or something, loving and fetishizing to the point of anthropomorphizing it it. But I don't. I won't either-don't matter to me whether or not I'm supposed to keep this a dirty little secret. I got a dick and I can kill you with it. Yeah, baby, trip my trigger, why dontcha. Heh.”
― Allen James, GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary

“After a year and a half my therapist retired, so I was bounced to someone else-a woman.
Shazam! I suddenly felt I could open up and talk about the real stuff going on in my head. She lasted two session. I guess it was the castration fantasy that pushed over the edge.”
― Joan Nestle

“I know what I am. I know that I've chosen to identify as a transgender woman, and that I am - by and large - happy with where I am in this world. I'm far from perfect, and I could give you a list as long as my arms of the things I'd love to change. Nevertheless, I am still here, and I am still me, and no one can change that without my permission.
-Gwendolyn Ann Smith, "We're All Someone's Freak”
― Kate Bornstein S. Bear Bergman

“Trauma or no, I would have been trans no matter what body I'd been born with. Tell the doctors that we exist for the health of humanity, which needs to find wholeness and belief in complexity. Girl in boy's body or boy inside a girl; call it fate or biology, will, or spiritual choice. But I was not born in the wrong body.
-Scott Turner Schofield, "The Wrong Body”
― Kate Bornstein S. Bear Bergman

“After three hours, I come back to the waiting room. It is a cosmetic surgery office, so a little like a hotel lobby, underheated and expensively decorated, with candy in little dishes, emerald-green plush chairs, and upscale fashion magazines artfully displayed against the wall.
A young woman comes in, frantic to get a pimple "zapped" before she sees her family over the holidays. An older woman comes in with her daughter for a follow-up visit to a face-lift. She is wearing a scarf and dark glasses. The nurse examines her bruises right out in the waiting room.
And you are in the operating room having your body and your gender legally altered. I feel like laughing, but I know it makes me sound like a lunatic.”
― Joan Nestle Riki Anne Wilchins Clare Howell

“But what does that mean, to "identify" as a gril? Just because you feel like you´re a girl doesn´t mean that you really are”
― I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above

“screw that gender essentialism bullshit, men have as much of a right to care about clothes as women. Girls can like sports and cars and guns. So why does it even matter if you identify as a girl, a boy or as neither?”
― I.W. Gregorio

“I told you I have both male and female organs."

"You didn't say they were all fully functional!" Belle stared at the rapidly disappearing bulge.

"Damn girl, how'd you get so lucky? Shit!”
― Belinda McBride, Belle Starr

“There were things that Pumpkin Head—now not Pumpkin Head anymore—had to do to be a girl. He had to be careful how he dressed, and how he acted. He had to be careful how he talked, and he always had to be calm. He was very frightened of what would happen if he didn't stay calm. For his face was really just a wonderful plastic one. The real Pumpkin Head was still inside, locked in, waiting to come out.”
― Al Sarrantonio, 13 Horrors of Halloween

“The main reason why trans-woman-exclusion evokes such passion and frustration in me is precisely because it is both anti-trans and antifeminist. And as a feminist, it gravely disturbs me that other self-described feminists are so willing to overlook or purposefully ignore how inherently sexist trans-woman-exclusion policies and politics are: they favor trans men over trans women, they rampantly objectify trans female bodies, and they privilege trans women's appearances, socialization, and the sex others assigned to us at birth over our persons, our minds, and our identities.”
― Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

“It was the kind of establishment that was not too concerned with their customers, just as long as they paid up front and did not mess up the rooms too much”
― Anthony Hawes, Miriam: Private Investigator

“What same-sex marriage, women's franchise and the end of segregation all have in common is that they extend the rights of a privileged group to everyone. And when people hear the phrase 'trans rights', they assume something similar is being demanded - that trans people be enabled to live without discrimination, harassment and violence, and to express themselves as they wish. Such goals are worthy ones, but they are not what mainstream transactivism is about. What campaigners mean by 'trans rights' is gender self-identification: that trans people be treated in every circumstance as members of the sex they identify with, rather than the sex they actually are.

This is not a human right at all. It is a demand that everyone else lose their rights to single-sex spaces, services and activities. And in its requirement that everyone else accept trans peoples' subjective beliefs as objective reality, it is akin to a new state religion, complete with blasphemy laws. All this explains the speed. When you want new laws, you can focus on lobbying, rather than the painstaking business of building broad-based coalitions. And when those laws will take away other people's rights, it is not only unnecessary to build public awareness - it is imperative to keep the public in the dark.”
― Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

“Es un error pensar que el cuerpo es un recipiente. Es tan activo como la mente, como el alma. Y cuanto más cedes ante él, más dura será tu vida. He estado en el cuerpo de gente que se mataba de hambre o vomitaba, de glotones y de adictos. Todos ellos piensan que sus acciones hacen que su vida sea más deseable. Pero, al final, el cuerpo les vence. Siempre.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Pero lo que causaba los sentimientos era cosa de química, de biología. Es muy difícil conquistar este ciclo. El cuerpo trabaja contra ti, por lo que tu desesperación es aún mayor. Y para lo único que sirve todo eso es para amplificar el desajuste. Vivir con todo eso requiere una fuerza anormal [...] y he de recordarme constantemente: <> Es la química. Es la biología.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Cuando Warhol vino a Madrid, yo estaba invitado a todas las fiestas que se organizaron en su honor. Era el año 1983 y vino para promocionar su exposición de pistolas, crucifijos y cuchillos. Nos presentaron una y otra vez en cada una de las fiestas y no me dirigió una sola palabra, su modo de reaccionar era hacerte alguna foto con una camarita que siempre llevaba en la mano. Los que me presentaban decían siempre lo mismo: este (por mí) es el Warhol ±ð²õ±è²¹Ã±´Ç±ô. La quinta vez que se lo dijeron me preguntó por qué me llamaban el Warhol ±ð²õ±è²¹Ã±´Ç±ô, y yo, absolutamente avergonzado, le dije: «Supongo que porque saco en mis películas a travestis y transexuales». Embarazoso encuentro.”
― Pedro Almodóvar, El último sueño

“If only I could be a woman. With soft hands, big breasts and long hair. To have men fawn all over me, to see them rise and fall. Alas, but all I have is small feet.”
― Ekta Kumar, Box of Lies: A Love Story, Without Love

“That is the one of the beauties of my identity. It acts as a filter, guiding me toward the gems in life”
― Chella Man, Continuum

“I'd rather feel pain while living, than hiding”
― Elliot Page, Pageboy