Janet Mock Quotes

I figured out who I was very early on - actually, at the age of 13, with the help of the Internet - so I knew that a transition, becoming a woman, was always something I needed to do.

Being transgender is more than just medical books and everything, procedures. It's something spiritual in which you're finding yourself and really discovering who you are and learning to love yourself.

That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project.

I was born a girl; it just took me a little while to become one fully.

Being transgender isn't a medical transition. It's a process of learning to love yourself for who you are.

It's funny. Some people now are like, 'Why would you transition? Why can't you just be comfortable how you were born?' That was my logic, but at a certain point, I realized that I was born uncomfortable.

When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'

When I was five, I came to understand that I was not a boy.

I've always known exactly who I am. I was a girl trapped in a boy's body.

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

Not only am I physically and emotionally attracted to women, I also wonder what being a woman would be like.

Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell 'my' sex change story but I've never appeared on his show for any reason... not even as a member of the studio audience.

It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.

In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.

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

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues.

When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gender dysphoria. This is not something that started until adolescence.

I've always been Sarah. My gender identity has always existed. I've always been a woman. Gay people aren't straight before they come out as gay, and transgender people are who they are before they come out and transition.

I spent so many years not understanding my own gender identity and not having the language for it, and not having those conversations, that now I'm so eager to talk about it. Then I learn more about myself and other people.

My family knew that they loved me, and whatever this 'I want to be a girl' business was, it certainly wasn't about to change that.

Everyone's journey to coming out as transgender is different. For me, I've know that I'm transgender my entire life.

I am transgender. I knew that I was for as long as I can remember.

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

It's hard because the phrase 'woman trapped in a man's body' is thrown around a lot, but that's like shorthand. It's deeper than that. There's so much more to it.

Ever since I could form coherent thoughts, I knew I was a girl trapped inside a boy's body. There was never any confusion in my mind. The confusing part was why no one else could see what was wrong.