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“If you find yourself in a relationship or even a friendship with someone who's conflicted with their gender identity, just be kind. This is not a life choice. This is something that you are born with. This is like being born with a gene for being tall, short, black, white, gay, straight - it's not a choice.”

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Author:Linda D. Thompson

“To parents who find a child's disclosure about sexual or gender identity challenging, I always urge what I'd call "moderated" honesty. If you can't say "I love you," then say something like, "I'm going to need some time to digest this news." Buy time this way. And then think.”

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Author:Steven Petrow

“Cross-dressing is more of a set of actions or behaviors and not synonymous with gender identity (straight, gay, bisexual, transgender, among others).”

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Author:Steven Petrow

“In some states, a very small number of states, it is illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of their gender identity, transgender identification. In the vast majority, it is perfectly legal.”

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Author:Allyson Robinson

“I think we all are born inside of our parents' narratives. We stay there for a good while. We are taught their narratives about everything: their marriage, the world, God, gender, identity, etcetera. Then, at some point, our own narrative develops too much integrity to live inside that story. We don't ever fully escape it, but we move into our own stories.”

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Author:Melissa Febos

“Issues of the economy are profoundly affected by how you live out sexual orientation and gender identity.”

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Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.”

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Book:Gender Trouble: Tenth Anniversary Edition

Source: Gender Trouble: Tenth Anniversary Edition

“It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time to make clear that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans are first class citizens. They are full and welcome members of our American family and they deserve the same civil rights protections as all other Americans. It is time for us to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Such discrimination is wrong and should not be tolerated.”

“So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I was a lesbian, and didn't realize that that wasn't the case. It was the fact that I was a man and a heterosexual man. The issue wasn't my sexual orientation, but rather my gender identity.”

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Author:Chaz Bono

“Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?”

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Book:Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Source: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

“Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.”

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Author:Judith Butler

“I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear makeup sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter. I don't really have that sort of strong gender identity-I identify as what I am. The fact that people are using it for creative or marketing purposes, it's just kind of like having a skill and using it to earn money.”

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Author:Andrej Pejic

“Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.”

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Author:Andrew Solomon

“There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.”

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Author:Felicia Day