EJ Johnson Quotes

With trans folks, we have a lot of people accusing us of just playing dress up for whatever reasons, and that's just not true.

If you don't know somebody, whether you're inquiring into their sex or their gender, it's invasive.

I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done.

I'm often mistaken for a man.

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

I was a tomboy.

'Clocked' means someone sees you for being transgender.

Gender dysphoria is never an easy thing to live with, mainly because people don't understand it.

You should never be put into a mold based on your gender.

I think one of the biggest misconceptions is that only gender non-conforming, non-binary, or trans people have a gender identity. But the truth is, everyone has a gender identity.

I do not feel that some things are masculine and others are feminine.

The first thing that's really important to understand, just when approaching the topic of transgender people, is that the sex you're assigned with at birth is not the same as your gender identity.

I wish everything was gender neutral. I wish we weren't separated by boundaries like pink and blue and little things like that. I wish we could choose how we express ourselves without hate.

I'm not trying to be a girl by putting on a dress - gender is separated by fabric.

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.

To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.