"It’s not easy for a young gay fabulous boy in Japan, I should know, that’s why I became a woman.” Momma Nakama"
- Rochelle H. Ragnarok
"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 l..."
- Kate Bornstein S. Bear Bergman
"Instead of saying that all gender is this or all gender id that, let's recognize that the word gender has scores of meanings built into it. It's an amalgamation of bodies, identities, and life experie..."
"Sorry to disappoint you, parents - but when your kids come out as gay, bi or transgender, it is not about you."
- Christina Engela
"That night I looked Stephanie [Burt] up online and started reading more about her work...I kept encountering a striking factoid...: she’s often cited as the most influential poetry critic of her gener..."
- Mitch Kellaway
"No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is."
- Agnostic Zetetic
"Monster” is derived from the Latin noun monstrum, “divine portent,” itself formed on the root of the verb monere, “to warn.” It came to refer to living things of anomalous shape or structure, or to fa..."
- Susan Stryker
"You pass as a guy; I, as pregnant. Our waiter cheerfully tells us about his family, expresses delight in ours. On the surface, it may have seemed as though your body was becoming more and more “male,”..."
- Maggie Nelson
"A single change can sometimes change your entire life"
- Rahul Rampal
"We’re at this really unique time, I think, in trans representation in popular culture where homelessness, depression, mental health issues, instability-in-general are still so very real and need to be..."