Sebastian Lelio Quotes

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

I would say what's really interesting about me personally is that I've taken my transgender experience, and I've looked at it on the bright side, on the positive side.

I wouldn't change myself at all. Being transgender makes me who I am: a strong person, a confident person. Being transgender gives me my personality.

Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it.

I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.

My dad read 'The Danish Girl' and fell in love with it. He told me, 'You need to do this film.'

Transgender women especially feel like we have to fit the binary system to a T in order to not be recognized as trans.

My name is Sarah McBride, and I am a proud transgender American.

I would hope that one day there will be a time when it's not so much about transgender, it's just people will just see us as women.

I hope I can help convince people there that being transgender is not a big deal and that we are just average people trying to go to school, work, and live good lives.

Being transgender has completely turned boys off from liking me.

It's OK to be talking to one another about what it means to be transgender. We don't have to shield everyone from the existence of people like me.

If no one knew that I was trans - let's say that I made it very, very far. Let's say I went to the UFC and became a UFC champion, even, won the belt title, took it home and no one ever knew - that would be great for me.

In seventh grade, I met my best friend Wendi, who is a trans woman.

We just want to help people understand that it's okay to be transgender, and they're just like everyone else.

I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans people had to face back then.

It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.

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

Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.

Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of the human condition that makes each individual unique, and something over which we have no control. We are who we are in the deepest recesses of our minds, hearts and identities.

I'm pretty sure I'm a doppelganger for Alan Alda. I'm a trannie; I'm a man.

It's very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it's ridiculous to a lot of people and I understand that.

I think what people need to realize is that, with trans people, we're like everybody else. No group of people are all the same. All women are not the same, all men are not the same, all children are not the same. It's the same thing with trans people - we're all so different, we have different goals, different dreams, and different aspirations.

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.

A lot of people, when they look at the whole trans thing, they think,'Oh, you're transgender, and in the fashion industry, which is very pro-LGBT, so you don't have any problems because it's a progressive place.' But that's not the reality.