“We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our own lives, from the ribs of the girls we were once assumed to be.” TransgenderTransTransmascTrans Bodies Book:Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix Source: Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
“He wanted to be a girl who wanted to be a girl, or a boy who was, in a way no one could question, a boy.” TransgenderTransmasc Book:When the Moon Was Ours Source: When the Moon Was Ours
“It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they wore skirts. Not when they told their brothers what to do, and borrowed their fathers' books. But there was everything else. The idea of being called Miss or Ms. or worse, Mrs. The thought of being grouped in when someone called out 'girls' or 'ladies.' The endless, echoing use of 'she' and 'her,' 'miss' and 'ma'am.' Yes, they were words. They were all just words. But each of them was wrong, and they stuck to him. Each one was a golden fire ant, and they were biting his arms and his neck and his bound-flat chest, leaving him bleeding and burning. 'He.' 'Him.' 'Mister.' 'Sir.' Even teachers admonishing him and his classmates with 'boys, settle down' or 'gentlemen, please.' These were sounds as perfect and clean as winter rain, and they calmed each searing bite of those wrong words.” LgbtTransgenderTransboyWhen The Moon Was Ours Book:When the Moon Was Ours Source: When the Moon Was Ours