Gender Nonconformity Quotes

I have never, ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been brought up to talk about my sex life.

I hate female men.

Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other. For the most part, I definitely don't identify as any gender. I'm not a guy; I don't really feel like a woman, but obviously I was born one. So, I'm somewhere in the middle, which - in my perfect imagination - is like having the best of both sexes.

Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can tell that story. People would think this is very unsympathetic, but I would always say to people, you don't actually need to go through with an operation, can't you just be? You are who you are! But then people say to me, "Oh, you're really dreadful, how would you know?".

I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

We're still stuck in male, female, feminism. I don't believe in, you know... I believe in gender equality.

I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

Me just existing and being myself is making change and making things easier for other young queer kids. I want to be me and express that and break new ground along the way.

What is male and what is female? I don't always feel female.

I originally thought I'd grow up to be a woman. I didn't question that when I was little.

You're an evolving and transforming person, right? And how do we capture that dynamics of sexuality in that complex sense? There may be times when someone feels oneself more overly masculine or maybe more feminine, or where the terms themselves become confused, where passivity and activity also don't maintain their usual meaning.

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

I think I never expected "Gender trouble" to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I'm always surprised.

I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.

I remember being about 14 when I started wearing shorts and heels. I hated the attention I got. I found it overwhelming.

Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.

You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.

… a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness for a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman

Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!

My parents started questioning me about whether or not I was transgender - whether or not I was trying to be a woman. It was a big argument.

If it was up to me I would wear riding clothes most of the day or jeans and a man's shirt.

I wonder, would I have transitioned from female to male if I was 30 years younger? Possibly. But if I had been born even 30 years later, because it seems like the technology will only get better, it seems like one might not ever need to settle down at all.

I never saw a ­distinction between a man and a woman. My ­grandparents and my mother were great examples of men and women, and they taught me ­equality. So I would fight with boys and wear my cousin's clothes. I would do whatever I wanted, and that's where I still stand today.