Transgender Quotes

• You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.

  Judith Light

  Gay, Bisexual, People

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• Every single American - gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of our society. It’s a pretty simple proposition.

  Barack Obama

  Eye, Gay, Bisexual

  Barack Obama's Remarks at the Human Rights Campaign's Annual National Dinner, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 1, 2011.

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• Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Gay, Bisexual, Color

  "Cyndi Lauper Launches Celebrity Charity Auction For Equality", www.looktothestars.org. July 17, 2012.

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• Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  Individual

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• I'm saying goodbye to people's perception of me and who I am, I'm not saying goodbye to me, because this has always been me.

  Bruce Jenner

  Goodbye, Who I Am, People

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• The transgender community deserves the dignity and respect that most people take for granted.

  Ed Murray

  People, Community, Dignity

  "Seattle mayor proposes all-gender single-occupant public bathrooms". www.businessinsider.com. June 24, 2015.

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• Ultimately, the transgender question is about more than just sex. It's about what it means to be human.

  Russell D. Moore

  Sex, Mean, Humans

  "Conservative Christianity and the transgender question". www.onfaith.co.

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• Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time

  Joe Biden

  Rights, Issues, Discrimination

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• I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.

  Gloria Steinem

  Real, Believe, People

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.

  Judith Butler

  Attitude, Law, People

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it.

  Eddie Izzard

  Cards, Honest, Beginning Of Life

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• Many in the trans community are fed up with L.G.B.T. organizations that continue to erase trans identity or just give lip service to trans issues. We need our cisgender allies - gay and straight - to treat transgender lives as if they matter, and trans people need multiple seats at the tables in the organizations that say they're interested in L.G.B.T. equality; this absence has been painful since Stonewall.

  Laverne Cox

  Gay, Organization, Issues

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• Whether you're transgender or not, most of us get to a point in our lives where we can no longer lie to ourselves.

  Laverne Cox

  Lying, Our Lives

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• I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't do as much for transgender as I did for, say, abused kids or battered women. And they said, "But no, you started the conversation. You started the conversation and the conversation has led us to here."

  Oprah Winfrey

  Kids, Thinking, Impact

  Source: wwd.com

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• Transgender people have served, are serving, and will continue to serve.

  Allyson Robinson

  People, Serving

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• I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Cousin, Brother

  News Conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change.

  Monica Raymund

  Gay, Bisexual, Epidemics

  "Making ‘A Better Holiday’" by Monica Raymund, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.

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• The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.

  Cornel West

  Brother, Mean, Gay

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of a sex caste that have survived subordination and deserve to be addressed with honour. Men who transgender cannot occupy such a position.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Sex, Men, Feminist

  Sheila Jeffreys (2014). “Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism”, p.9, Routledge

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• If you are a woman, if you are a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.

  Margaret Cho

  Integrity, Gay, Bisexual

  "Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O". TV Special, June 13, 2002.

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• I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Gay, Bisexual, People

  Interview with Alan Cumming, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 26, 2009.

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• The transgender movement even divides itself up by gender, as many folks stick with their same trans-genders (female-to-male or male-to-female). Additionally, the movement gets strangely subdivided among, for example, male cross-dressers, sissy boys, butch women, femme dykes, drag kings, drag queens, transvestites, intersexed, transsexuals (post-op, pre-op, and non-op).

  Kate Bornstein

  Queens, Kings, Boys

  "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• Seeing a black transgender woman embracing and loving everything about herself might be inspiring to some other folks.

  Laverne Cox

  Black, Might, Loving Everything

  "Laverne Cox Strips Down in Gorgeous New Photoshoot" by Victoria Dawson Hoff, www.elle.com. April 16, 2015.

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• Gender has always been considered a fact immutable. But we now know it's actually more fluid, complex, and mysterious. Because of my success, I never have the courage to share my story. Not because I thought what I am is wrong but because of how the world treats those of us who wish to break free.

  Geena Rocero

  Wish, Stories, World

  "Why I must come out". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2014.

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• President Obama has appointed a transgender woman to a position in the Department of Commerce. You know, in this era of partisan bickering, President Obama deserves a lot of credit for taking a chance on Ann Coulter, I think.

  Conan O'Brien

  Thinking, President, Credit

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