#transgender

At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or transgender. And to be honest, I am shocked they let us do it. ↗

— Jai Rodriguez

#beginning #challenge #conceptual #each #going

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs. ↗

— Patti Smith

#doing #enjoyed #i #i always #songs

After three hours, I come back to the waiting room. It is a cosmetic surgery office, so a little like a hotel lobby, underheated and expensively decorated, with candy in little dishes, emerald-green plush chairs, and upscale fashion magazines artfully displayed against the wall. A young woman comes in, frantic to get a pimple "zapped" before she sees her family over the holidays. An older woman comes in with her daughter for a follow-up visit to a face-lift. She is wearing a scarf and dark glasses. The nurse examines her bruises right out in the waiting room. And you are in the operating room having your body and your gender legally altered. I feel like laughing, but I know it makes me sound like a lunatic. ↗

— Joan Nestle

#trans #transexual #transgender #art

Some days when my face was broken out just a little too much for me to take, and I looked in despair at the way my fashionless clothes hung on my thin body, my heart just couldn't take another noticeless passage through my school day and I went to agonize alone in the park. ↗

— Calpernia Addams

#transgender #love

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. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#birth #body #brain #complicated #defect

For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#eye #fear #handle #hard #having

Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But I'm an activist - that's just the kind of person I am. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#am #gay #i #i am #just

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected? ↗

— Chastity Bono

#else #everyone #how #i #life

You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people. ↗

— Judith Light

#gay #know #lesbian #people #transgender

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

— Mercedes Ruehl

#chooses #individuals #nature #transgender #who