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“We are much stronger and more powerful than we understand. We are fifteen thousand pounds of muscle and bone forged from rage and trauma.”

Strength Trauma Trans Women

Book:Detransition, Baby

Source: Detransition, Baby

“At the end of the day, this isn’t about who is and isn’t a woman. It’s about who performs womanhood enough. It’s about who presents themselves as being a good little pretty wifey who doesn’t stand up to men.”

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Author:Rachel Charlton-Dailey

“I have been doomed to be a girl who must pass her earthly existence in a male body. How dreadful it is to a young woman to have a slight growth of hair on lip or cheeks ! Only one mark of the male ! How much more dreadful for a young woman to possess almost all the male anatomy as I do ! How I have bewailed my fate!”

Sadness Agony Transgender Trans Anatomy Gender Dysphoria Dysphoria Trans Women Transfemininity

Book:Autobiography of an Androgyne

Source: Autobiography of an Androgyne

“Be paralyzed whenever you want to write anything. You were so wrong for so many years, so incredibly good at lying to yourself, and given that, how could you possibly think you’ll ever put a pen to paper and say something true?”

Writing Transgender Self Deception Trans Women Transfemininity Internalized Transphobia

Book:How to Become a Really Really Not Famous Trans Lady Writer

Source: How to Become a Really Really Not Famous Trans Lady Writer

“The moms I knew when I was little didn't have to prove that it was okay to want a child. Sure, a lot of women I know wonder if they do want a child, but not why. It's assumed why. The question cis women get asked is: Why don't you want kids? And then they have to justify that. If I had been born cis, I would never even have had to answer these questions. I wouldn't have had to prove that I deserve my models of womanhood. But I'm not cis. I'm trans. And so until the day that I am a mother, I'm constantly going to have to prove that I deserve to be one. That it's not unnatural or twisted that I want a child's love. Why do I want to be a mother? After all those beautiful women I grew up with, the ones who chaperoned my classes on field trips, or made me lunch when I was at their house, or sewed costumes for all the little girls that I ice skated with — and you too, Katrina, for that matter — have to explain their feelings about motherhood, then, I'll explain mine. And do you know what I'll say? Ditto.”

Motherhood Trans Women Cis Women

Book:Detransition, Baby

Source: Detransition, Baby

“All other women were allowed to be ugly, to be hideous, to have all kinds of defects and flaws in their appearance. But I had to be pretty; if I did not look good, I had lost any right to exist, to be a woman ......”

Identity Insecurity Femininity Transgender Beauty Standards Transgender Issues Gender Dysphoria Prettiness Trans Women

Book:Man into Woman: The First Sex Change

Source: Man into Woman: The First Sex Change

“I am a woman entombed in the body of a man.”

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Book:Autobiography of an Androgyne

Source: Autobiography of an Androgyne

“We are poison women, Diane, because our bodies do all turn what enters them into poison, and we make poison and spread poison, because we are sadness itself. There is no way for us not to be that.”

Dysphoria Trans Women

Book:Summer Fun

Source: Summer Fun

“Because I support trans rights, I must be trans, because why would you care about something if it didn’t directly affect you?”

Misogyny Supporting Others Transgender Issues Trans Rights Trans Women Transgender Lives Matter Transwomen Advocating For Others

Author:Rachel Charlton-Dailey

“Trans and gender non-conforming people have stood by lesbians throughout the gay rights movement. We now need to support them as they fight for their equality.”

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Author:Ella Braidwood