Top 99 Transgender Quotes

As I got older, I learned about how some people treated their transgender children, and I was shocked. I couldn’t understand how someone would leave their child and throw them on the street. I was always taught you give your kid unconditional love and if you don’t, something’s wrong with you, for real.

I had the idea that I’m going to make a trans-genre film about a transgender woman.

Body positivity is not just an issue for larger women, and I think that’s important to acknowledge. It’s about including everyone, whether you’re transgender, or LGBTQ, it’s really about embracing every person’s uniqueness.

Everyone’s journey to coming out as transgender is different. For me, I’ve know that I’m transgender my entire life.

If I only care about equality for transgender people, then I am leaving so many people behind – if I’m not at the same time seeking to end discrimination against people of color, seeking to end discrimination against women, seeking to ensure that people of every religious background have an equal opportunity.

I don’t think we should be discriminating against anyone. Transgender people are people and deserve the best we can do for them.

Being transgender is more than just medical books and everything, procedures. It’s something spiritual in which you’re finding yourself and really discovering who you are and learning to love yourself.

Access to public facilities like bathrooms is important for transgender people. But the fight for transgender rights does not begin and end at the bathroom door.

We didn’t have anyone to tell us that what was going on with me was alright. There was no information about transgender people when we started our journey, but we managed to make it through because of the tremendous amount of love that our family had.

There’s a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they’re mismatched. That’s all it is. It’s not complicated, it’s not a neurosis. It’s a mix-up. It’s a birth defect, like a cleft palate.

For transgender kids who are struggling, I want them to know they’re not alone. They shouldn’t be afraid to step out of their shadows.

Being transgender has completely turned boys off from liking me.

By God’s grace, it was turning out to be a cracker of a film, so we named it ‘Laxmmi Bomb.’ Like a dhamaka of Laxmmi Bomb cannot be missed, the transgender lead character is powerful and radiant. Hence the name fits perfectly.

I know from first-hand experience that separating transgender students from their peers can cause many to leave school, hide who they are, or even do the unthinkable.

Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people.

I came out publicly as transgender and began hormone replacement therapy while in prison. When I was released, however, there was no quantifiable history of me existing as a transwoman. Credit and background checks automatically assumed I was committing fraud.

I can only imagine how much more fun it’s going to be to play someone who shares my identity rather than having to contort myself to play a boy. I’m going to gun for those roles, be it a transgender female or a cisgender female.

The fight for justice for the transgender community is largely invisible to our fellow citizens, despite the rampant systematic discrimination of trans people – those whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

I don’t like labels. For me, saying I’m transgender was just a thing to say because it’s what people want to label me as – a female, who’s a male.

During my sophomore year at American University, I was elected president of the student body. At the same time, I was struggling with my identity and whether or not to come out as transgender.

One may assume that playing a transgender is different, but I’m simply playing a third gender. Why should it make my acting process any different?

I think that someday we will live in a world where transgender people will be viewed as the multidimensional people that we are.

We have some amazing people that are standing up for transgender people, and it’s very cool to see that.

It’s something you’re born with, and you realize that you’re trapped in the wrong body. It’s not like one day you’re like, ‘I want to be transgender!’

I want it to be that transgender is normal. Let us live our lives. Let us be happy. The world will be a better place when we have that freedom. I think I’m going to be alive to see it.

The main thing Twitter needs to focus on are implementing its rules more uniformly. If outing a transgender woman is against Twitter’s rules, that needs to be implemented every time.

All our friends – so many friends are gay or lesbian and transgender. We’re just in that world. We all went through the devastating time of the AIDS crisis, and I think that galvanized us to be more activists – AIDS activists.

I always supported gay issues, but I never understood transgender issues. But after I heard Bruce Jenner speak so honestly, so sincerely, and so relatably, I totally got it. I totally understood what he was saying – it was so compelling.

Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women – from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.

We have a lot of things, you know, as a medical professional, we have to start looking at, some of the, particularly, the transgender issue has to be looked at in the psychotic – the psychosis in regards to the medical community and looking at that application because there’s a lot of mixed studies in those regards.

I’ve always been transgender, and I always will be. Having said that, my spirit is feminine. If you had to divide humanity into two groups, I would sit with the women.

It’s been a long road of self-transformation for me, and I’m so grateful for the care I received at NYU Langone with Dr. Rachel Bluebond-Langer, one of the best transgender surgery specialists in the country.

‘Clocked’ means someone sees you for being transgender.

I think it can be difficult for young lesbian or young gay, bisexual, transgender to come out and be open with who they are because there’s such a huge stigma attached to that preference of their sexuality.

HB2 discriminates against fellow citizens because of who they are. This law directly challenges the legitimacy of the identity of transgender persons and then compels them to deny it every time they use a public restroom.

Military members understand that the focus is on completing the mission. We don’t care if you are tall or short; have dark skin or pale skin or freckles; or are gay, straight, or transgender.

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

MMA is the most dangerous sport there is for a transgender, with all the body contact, I know that.

The Internet has been great for the LGBT community. I know many older transgender people who say, ‘I didn’t know there was a single person like me until I was 40.’ I can’t imagine growing up in my teenage years without access to that information.

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.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don’t choose this.

My parents started questioning me about whether or not I was transgender – whether or not I was trying to be a woman. It was a big argument.

I want to be able to supply the knowledge that transgender women need in order to live peacefully and become accepted among all men and women.

I feel, in the sense that if you’re heterosexual, if you’re bisexual, if you’re gay, if you’re a lesbian, if you’re transgender, whatever the vibe is, that’s what you represent. I’ve always found it quite strange that we always like to try and define people and say this is how it is, and this is how it should be.

I remember in 2004, I had three gorgeous transgender models on the runway. That was my strength, in a way. That I did what I thought was gonna work, and I never paid attention to the industry’s rules.

Because you never know when a transgender person is going to come into your life, you need to be prepared, and you need to be ready to help them.

I’ve always been Sarah. My gender identity has always existed. I’ve always been a woman. Gay people aren’t straight before they come out as gay, and transgender people are who they are before they come out and transition.

Too often, when transgender people die, family members or funeral homes will end up dressing a body of a transgender person in the garments of the gender that they were assigned at birth instead of their gender identity. They’re often dead-named and misgendered.

We’re into a world where we’re not talking about gay or straight or bisexual any more so much as we’re talking about being transgender or identifying as a woman if you’re a man.

Having transgender characters leads to more visibility, which creates education. Education can hopefully lead to everyone treating our community with acceptance and love.