“I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.” WantTryingHumansCommunityHuman BeingsBreathingTransgender Author:Candis Cayne
“I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for the first time.” ThinkingFeelsFirstsFallGayHappeningsFirst TimeFalling In LoveTransgender Author:Cate Blanchett
“The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate.” IdentityComplexesComplicatedGenderDebateTransgender Author:Jess Row
“The Washington Post speaking out against state legislation that he believed would let businesses deny services to gay, lesbian and transgender people. [Tim] Cook himself came out as gay in the pages of Bloomberg Businessweek.” PeopleStatesGayPagesDenyPostsCooksLegislationTransgenderSpeaking Out Author:Laura Sydell
“The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.” PeopleMeanSufferingSpeakBlackPoorConditionsBrotherTruth IsGayBlack PeopleTransgenderWidowsOrphan Author:Cornel West
“We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the struggle for equality for the gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. And I think it's important for Americans to know about the times that we failed.” PeopleThinkingKnowsImportantStruggleRightsCenturyMovementGaySlaveryCivil RightsInequality21st CenturyTransgenderCivil Rights Movement Author:George Takei
“I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and that of a transgender woman who was asked to deliver a sermon at her Montana church and got a standing ovation from her congregation. The idea that Christianity is a blanket term that encompasses both of those attitudes seems ludicrous to me.” ChildrenIdeasSeemsMotherTermChurchAttitudeChristianityStandingSermonsTransgenderBlanketCongregationMontanaTennesseeKu Klux KlanOvation Author:Andrew Solomon
“Effective immediately, transgender Americans may serve openly, and they can no longer be discharged or otherwise separated from the military just for being transgender.” MayMilitaryTransgender Author:Ashton Carter
“I have a production company, and we work with reality TV producers 44 Blue. They asked if we'd like to get involved. When they explained that it was the first transgender modeling agency, we said, "Yeah, of course!"” IfsFirstsSaidRealityCoursesCompanyTvsInvolvedBlueYeahProductionsProducersAgencyModelingGet InvolvedTransgenderReality Tv Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“Well, one of the things we felt was missing from the greater conversation is that transgender people have been living and working in America for years...People may think it's a "new" thing; it's not...So we wanted to show not just the political side, which is what you see with Caitlyn Jenner. And not the other side with Laverne Cox, who's great.” PeopleThinkingYearsWellsMayHas BeensShowsWantedAmericaPoliticalFeltSidesGreaterMissingConversationNew ThingsTransgender Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“Love doesn't care if you're gay, straight, or transgender. Your heart's gonna get broken. You're gonna turn into a crazy person.” IfsHeartPersonsCareTurnsCrazyBrokenGayTransgenderCrazy Person Author:Rumer Willis
“Cross-dressing is more of a set of actions or behaviors and not synonymous with gender identity (straight, gay, bisexual, transgender, among others).” ActionIdentityGayBehaviorCrossesGenderDressingsTransgenderBisexualGender Identity Author:Steven Petrow
“Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.” PeopleTryingSometimesBodySeemsBornDealsViolenceFemaleMalesExtremesGenderMedicalEstablishmentTransgenderPsychiatristCritiqueContinuumBinaryIntersex Author:Judith Butler
“The President [Barack Obama] became quite emotional about transgender student rights, threatening to pull Department of Education funds from school districts that do not comply with federal regulations. Black children are suspended from school three times more than white children are, and there is no evidence that black children are three times as unruly.” ChildrenSchoolThreeBlackPresidentWhiteRightsStudentsEmotionalEvidenceBarackDepartmentFundRegulationThreateningThree TimesTransgenderPresident Barack ObamaSuspendedUnrulySchool Districts Author:Julianne Malveaux
“We [Democrats] have become a party of assembling all these different groups, the women's caucus and the black caucus and the Hispanic caucus and the lesbian-gay-transgender caucus and so forth, and that doesn't relate to people out in rural America.” PeopleDifferentAmericaBlackPartyGroupsGayDemocratRelateTransgenderHispanicCaucusAssemblingRural America Author:Collin Peterson
“Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they're - they are gay or transgender.” PeopleYearsTodayYoungLosesGayAwfulTeenagerTransgender Author:Cleve Jones
“I am going to ensure that LGBTQ Americans have full equality under the law and address the urgent crisis of violence against transgender women of color.” LawViolenceColorCrisisAddressesUrgentTransgenderEquality Under The Law Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think worldwide, the movement has been towards accepting and respecting the individuality and the rights of gay people, lesbians and transgender people. Here, however, age-old cultural mindsets - which also comes from Victorian times, affect the thinking of people.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensAgeAcceptingRightsMovementGayIndividualityMindsetTransgenderGay PeopleVictorianVictorian Times Author:Kabir Bedi
“We have strong statistical evidence that shows that transgender people are twice as likely as their fellow citizens to join the military, to have served in the military.” PeopleShowsStrongMilitaryCitizensEvidenceFellowsTransgender Author:Allyson Robinson
“I'm just one example of thousands of transgender veterans and people who are actively serving today.” PeopleTodayExampleJust OneServingVeteranTransgender Author:Allyson Robinson
“The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution protects citizens against cruel and unusual punishment. And there is a growing body of legal precedent that shows that transgender people who are incarcerated should be provided with these medically necessary procedures. In cases where they're not, it is considered a violation of those rights.” PeopleShouldShowsBodyCasesGrowingRightsCitizensProtectConstitutionPunishmentUnusualAmendmentsProceduresViolationTransgenderPrecedentCruel And Unusual Punishment Author:Allyson Robinson
“Transgender people have served, are serving, and will continue to serve.” PeopleServingTransgender Author:Allyson Robinson
“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.” StatesNumbersIdentityBasesMajorityGenderIllegalTransgenderIdentificationSmall NumbersGender Identity Author:Allyson Robinson
“If we know one thing from the transgender people who are currently serving - I'm in contact with one group that counts almost 200 people in uniform today who identify as transgender - it is a process that they have - that many of them have begun, that many of them would very much like to complete, if they could do so without putting their years at risk.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsTodayProcessRiskOne ThingGroupsContactServingUniformsTransgender Author:Allyson Robinson
“The repeal of don't ask, don't tell didn't change things for transgender people in the military. What it has done, though, I think, is it has taught our military leaders that they don't need to be afraid of these issues.” PeopleThinkingNeedsDoneAsksLeaderIssuesMilitaryTaughtTransgenderMilitary Leader Author:Allyson Robinson
“Today, the gay and lesbian people are accepted. Their families are welcome in the units where they serve. This is not so for transgender people in any way. But, nevertheless, it could be.” PeopleWayTodayGayAcceptedWelcomeNeverthelessUnitsTransgender Author:Allyson Robinson
“Our allies, Great Britain, Australia, Israel, some of the strongest militaries in the world, allow transgender people to serve openly and have experienced no ill effects from that.” PeopleWorldEffectsIllIsraelBritainAustraliaStrongestAlliesTransgenderGreat Britain Author:Allyson Robinson
“Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.” PeopleWorldImportantHappensCareLawDesireIndividualWishLevelsAttitudeEnvironmentOvercomingPrejudiceInstitutionsAccessPursueHealth CareExcellentTransgenderTransAffirmativeKinship Author:Judith Butler
“I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.” PeopleShouldBelieveRealCareI BelieveDecisionIncludingHealth CareTransgenderAuthentic Life Author:Gloria Steinem
“Could somebody explain to me why transgender people have become so important to Barack Hussein O? I'm serious.” PeopleImportantSeriousBarackHusseinTransgender Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The gay movement has realized its agenda, so they've gotta transfer that energy somewhere and transgenders is the next.” NextEnergyMovementGayAgendasTransgenderTransfers Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The only time there's gonna be a transgender bathroom in the White House is during a gay rights ceremony. You know as well as I do that that's not going to happen.” KnowsWellsHappensHouseWhiteRightsGayWhite HouseBathroomCeremonyOnly TimeTransgenderGay Rights Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think that we will come out on top as women, as people of color, as Muslims, as transgender people, as people who are part of the disabled community - I think that we'll come out on top.” PeopleThinkingCommunityColorTransgenderDisabled Author:Ibtihaj Muhammad
“The people that say diversity is the reason for the greatness are purposely assaulting the United States as founded. They want you to believe that America was only great for a few people as founded, because, as founded, America was gigantically discriminating against the poor and against people of color and against transgenders. Yeah, I've read the Federalist Papers, you know. James Madison, he wasn't popular with the transgender group back then. Did you know that? You won't find the word. It was not a factor, the way they have attempted to modernize things here today. It's just lies.” PeopleKnowsWayWantBelieveStatesReasonTodayAmericaLyingPoorUnitedUnited StatesGroupsGreatnessColorPaperDiversityYeahFactorsPapersTransgenderDid You KnowMadisonFederalistFederalist Papers Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You've got the whole stuff with transgender toilets and stuff like that - that's no way for a government to behave. We're supposed to be against ISIS, so why are we trying to slowly introduce a country-club version of Sharia law in America, you know? It doesn't make any real sense at all. I think there's going to be a lot of energy, there is already a lot of reaction against that - people are prepared to really stand up and be counted for democracy, and in the process to find out what is and what isn't.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayTryingRealCountryWholeGovernmentAmericaLawEnergyStuffProcessDemocracyPreparedClubsReactionsVersionsSupposed To BeBehaveIntroducingToiletsIsisTransgenderShariaCountry ClubsSharia Law Author:Irvine Welsh
“We're in Trump times - we're in the time this misogynist hate clown is the leader of the free world, and when Putin has made abusing your wife legal, and transgender bathrooms have just been disallowed in school. There are all these political setbacks. And there's no question that those setbacks are very real and need to be treated as civil-rights issues.” WorldNeedsMadeRealSchoolPoliticalHateLeaderIssuesWifeRightsTrumpTreatedCivil RightsBathroomClownTransgenderPutinSetbackFree World Author:Stephen Marche
“I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans people had to face back then.” PeopleHardEnoughFacesImagineGayLifetimeCrueltyTransgenderTransBeing Gay Author:Patti Smith
“If you're a person with resources who is LGBT, you may have some problems with that - but, frankly, you'll probably have an apartment. If you're poor, if you're transgender, if you're a person of color, if you're HIV positive and you're homeless, the ability to act on desire, the ability to be safely somewhere to make love with anybody that you want to make love with is unlikely.” IfsWantMayPersonsProblemDesireAbilityPoorColorResourcesLgbtApartmentMaking LoveHomelessUnlikelyTransgenderHivHiv Positive Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.” PeopleWorldImportantCareDesireIndividualWishAttitudeEnvironmentOvercomingPrejudiceAgreeHealth CareExcellentTransgenderKinship Author:Judith Butler
“Reading about feminism when I was a teenager and seeing it as a young woman, I realized that feminism really hadn't dealt with sexuality; it really hadn't dealt with transgender or gay women.” ReadingFeminismGaySexualityI RealizedTeenagerYoung WomenTransgender Author:Lorna Simpson
“We had so many milestones in America. We were on our way to universal healthcare. We had gay marriage. We were talking about gender fluidity and trans issues openly and discussing them with respect. It was almost to the point where educating people about transgender rights wasn't an issue. We were including trans people as a normal part of our conversations instead of seeing their presence as this shocking thing to the system. We forgot that those things can be taken away from you because there are people in the world that, for whatever f - king reason, can't live and let live.” PeopleWorldReasonTakenGayGenderHealthcareGay MarriageTransgenderMilestoneLive And Let Live Author:Beth Ditto
“By holding to the first woman, the first black, the first homosexual, the first transgender, the first native American, the first whatever, there is also something else more hideous that is woven into this intricate web of deceit, and that is the built-in excuse to why they might or will fail. It's because America is unjust. When you have the first woman to do something, the media questions, "Why haven't there been more?" Well, America is unfair, unjust, bigoted, sexist, and misogynistic.” BlackFailingExcuseNativeDeceitNative AmericanUnfairHomosexualTransgenderSexist Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.” PeopleKnowsWantInspirationalMayGayGuaranteesTransgenderBisexualBisexuality Author:Billie Jean King
“Liberals got gay marriage, and now they got this transgender thing going and at full speed. The things that are being aimed at undermining what have been traditionally defined as right and wrong and moral and immoral, that's been turned upside down, and it's not changing. Yet.” MoralGaySpeedImmoralGay MarriageTransgenderUpside Down Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If someone is of the opinion that biological men ought to use the men's room and biological females ought to use the women's room - he is regarded as a bigot. I find this absolutely astonishing. Especially since using a toilet facility is a matter of the privacy of other people who are in the room. It's not a matter of the rights of the transgender person.” PeopleMenOpinionHe ManFemalePrivacyTransgender Author:William Lane Craig
“I'd like to see feminism really be more loving. Feminists have a lot of righteous anger, and have done a lot to fight for rights. But we need a lot of love and compassion - to embrace people, to educate people. I wasn't a feminist until l I was educated about what it was. I would love to see men attend, and transgender people. Everyone is welcome.” PeopleMenDoneFightingCompassionFeminismEmbraceFeministWelcomeEducatedEducateRighteousTransgenderLove And Compassion Author:Annie Sprinkle
“Being a black transgender woman in America is really hard. It's been really hard for me. But for me living a lie was much worse. I need to be in my truth. And I've been very, very lucky that I've been able to live my dreams and I believe everyone should have the right to live their dreams. This is America. We're supposed to all have that right.” BelieveDreamLyingI BelieveBlackLuckyTransgender Author:Laverne Cox
“Just me existing, as an openly black transgender woman from a working-class background, thriving, is a political act. My brother always reminds me that if you are black in America and you're alive, you deserve a round of applause. There are so many forces that don't want us to be alive, and so just being openly who I am, and happy and thriving, is a political act.” PoliticalBlackBrotherDeserveMy BrotherWant UTransgender Author:Laverne Cox
“When somebody asks me, "Who are you?" I tell them, "I am the oldest ethnic transgender community in the world, which has its own culture and own religious beliefs." And we are in four countries in South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Terai region of Nepal. What binds us hijras together is the same pain that has gone through our lives, which is much thicker than blood. That's why in our community we don't have old-age homes. Our guru may be horrible, but at the same time, we take care of the guru till the last breath.” WorldCountryHomeCarePainTogetherCultureBeliefCommunityReligiousTake CareHorribleAsk MeGuruTransgenderReligious Belief Author:Laxmi Narayan Tripathi