Chaz Bono Quotes

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.

I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.

When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.

As a little kid, I was convinced that I was a guy.

For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.

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

This is what's hard: I know I'm legally a man, but I'm also male-minded, despite having the female appearance.

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.

For me, having a gender identity that was different from my sex assigned at birth and that wasn't seen by society felt like a constant feeling of homesickness - that unwavering ache in the pit of my stomach.

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

I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.

I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

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.

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

Seeing myself as female every time I look in the mirror is painful in a way I will never be able to describe.

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

Everyone else is following these male and female tracks that have already been set for them, but when you're trans there is no trail.

True transgenders do hypermasculine things.

I grew up believing I sounded like a boy.

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

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

I look like a dude and feel like a dude, and it sucks. But eventually I'll flip, and I'll present as female.

I knew that I was trans when I was three years old. Well, I didn't know 'trans' because I didn't know there was a word for it, but I just knew that in my head and my heart that I was supposed to be a girl.

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