Chaz Bono Quotes

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 don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.

I don't know what I am if I'm not a woman.

I feel like there's no such thing as gender.

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.

I always find it amazing that people get mad because they can't figure out my gender. Even though my only job here is to create art, I think being a genderless figure... it shakes people. And when that happens, it makes me feel like I'm doing my job.

If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

What interested me, was that as we age, those seemingly unbreakable barriers that define us, our gender, they begin to crack, to blur; they're not absolutes anymore.

I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

Bodies have a sex, but gender is a thing we made up, like your star sign or nationality. It doesn't really say anything about who you are. The destruction of gender binary would free everybody.

In an ideal world, we would be able to just swap characters' genders around because I don't ever wake up in the morning and think to myself, 'Oh I am such a woman today,' because that is just so ridiculous.

I'm really proud that MTV has joined the conversation about breaking down binaries.

Sex is biological, but gender is mental.

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.

Sexuality is who you want to be with. Gender identity is who you want to be in the world.

The gender thing doesn't exist; it's a social construct you don't have to fit into.

I absolutely think it is more acceptable for people who were assigned female at birth to dress in a typically gender non-conforming way. There was a time when people of all genders had long hair and anyone who wanted to wore jewelry - it was more a sign of status than a sign of femininity, per se.

Masculinity involves feminine qualities, and femininity involves masculine qualities.

... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.

Sometimes there are ways to minimize the importance of gender in life, or to confuse gender categories so that they no longer have descriptive power. But other times gender can be very important to us, and some people really love the gender that they have claimed for themselves.

It seems to me that "Gender trouble" will always be important to try and open up our ideas of what gender is. So, I don't know if it's revolutionary, but maybe it still has something to say to those issues.

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.

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.