Nicole Maines Quotes

Society doesn't tell you that you can be trans.

For me, I know I am a trans activist and I try my best to stand up when the time is right, but at the same time, I don't always want to be considered transgender around my friends and people at my daughter's school. I just want to be considered a woman.

As a visible and outspoken trans woman myself, I know that it's rare not to have your trans-ness lead the way for you in public spaces.

I am a huge fan of the transgender community.

What's infuriating is when cis people think celebrating me is celebrating transness.

I have a bunch of transgender friends, but they're all spread out across the country.

It would be pretty amazing for Victoria's Secret to be that huge corporation that embraces trans women. We shop there as well.

I have friends who are trans advocates, and they were upset that Jared Leto played a trans person.

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.

A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.

It's actually one of the hardest things for trans people, is to go to the bathroom.

It would be lovely to live in a world where trans-female models were treated as female models, and trans-male models were treated the same as male models rather than being a niche commodity.

From the very beginning, I think it's been quite clear that there's no way I could possibly say that trans women are not women. It's the sort of thing to me that's obvious, so I start from that obvious premise.

Respectable transwomen were not as visible and very unclear in how they defined themselves. I had no one to look up to, pre-transition.

I think that someday we will live in a world where transgender people will be viewed as the multidimensional people that we are.

Time and time again, we have seen a growing alliance of allies who are willing to stand with trans people, who are educating themselves on trans identity and trans equality, and who understand that our lives are worth celebrating and that our cause matters.

I want to be able to supply the knowledge that transgender women need in order to live peacefully and become accepted among all men and women.

To see a trans body in this ideal space - on a cover, in an ad - these are spaces that have immense cultural power to dictate what is beautiful, what is glamorous, what is aspirational, what is sexy, what is clean. That can be very powerful and helpful in the de-stigmatization of trans bodies.

I'm so happy trans visibility has increased immensely.

We exist in a culture where trans people are constantly delegitimized.

Trans people are beautiful. It's a different kind of beauty, and it should be recognized and respected.

Trans women should be accepted and celebrated, whether they look a little bit more on the masculine side of the spectrum or they're the femme of all fems.

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.

I think it's really important to understand that every trans story is not the same, and we are as varied as any other group of people.

Being a woman is an option, being trans is an option, and they're options that appeal to me. We need to listen to people - not labels, not semantics.