Trans Experience Quotes

Almost as soon as I came out as trans, there was a spike in online harassment more vicious than anything I'd experienced before. It turns out there are many people who spend a good portion of their spare time making life as miserable as possible for trans people.

Being trans, I've grown up with the understanding that most women are born girls, yet some are born boys. And most men are born boys, yet some are born girls. And if you're ready for this, some people are born girls or boys and choose to identify outside our society's binary system, making them genderqueer.

What I'm really excited for is to see the evolution of trans characters and see more diverse stories be told, so that every time we're on screen, we're not really playing the part of educator and having to explain the experience to the audience, because it will have already been normalized.

I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body!

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

Being transgender is not just a medical transition.

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

The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.

I spent a long time reporting on trans issues, and I know in the course of that reporting I saw how deeply adversity runs.

I don't want the same trans story to be told over and over again. I don't want people to get stuck on this very western idea of what it means to be transgender.

When I was growing up, I didn't know of anybody who was trans. There was always, like, this shame, anxiety thing around all of that, even if I wasn't actively expressing it.

Being able to write about love through a trans lens is something that's not really represented when it comes to love songs.

My experience with 'Transparent' has completely spoiled me because it was the safest, most transpositive set ever. I didn't have to worry about all the usual things - like when people have a vision of your transness that you're not comfortable with. When they don't know the correct gender pronouns by which to refer to you.

'Clocked' means someone sees you for being transgender.

We have a lot of trans friends. We know lots of people who have been trying to [model]; we know a lot about it.

When you live this trans experience, there's a point and time in your life that you almost stop developing because you don't know where to go.

I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.

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.

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.

Trans people are not a monolith.

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.

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.

People ask me all the time, 'What is it like being on set for a show about trans people?' And this is a state of normalcy to me.

My life isn't really that different from a biological female.

From the start. As early as - I felt I was in the wrong sex; I really did. I would go into my dad's room and put on his clothes.