James Thomson Callender Quotes

Me feeling ambiguous about my gender identity has been a lifelong feeling, certainly.

I believe that I am male and I am female.

I believe gender is a spectrum, and I fall somewhere between Channing Tatum and Winnie the Pooh.

What is male and what is female? I don't always feel female.

For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.

I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.

I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy.

I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.

Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'

Number one, I don't understand a transgender. I don't understand. Is it a guy dressed up like a girl, or a girl dressed up like a guy?

When I was five, long before I understood what the word 'gender' meant, I would always tell my mother that I wished I were a girl.

This is what's hard: I know I'm legally a man, but I'm also male-minded, despite having the female appearance.

For my entire life, I've wrestled with my gender identity.

I'm not a man trapped in a woman's body. I'm a brain trapped in a human body.

Masculinity involves feminine qualities, and femininity involves masculine qualities.

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.

I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.

I had always been a really peculiar child. My mom would tell you I grew up roughing it with the boys and playing with action figures and toy cars and stuff, but I also had an Easy Bake Oven... I find it amazing that in a really weird way, people are mad that they can't figure out my gender.