Transgender Quotes - Page 5

• Love doesn't care if you're gay, straight, or transgender. Your heart's gonna get broken. You're gonna turn into a crazy person.

  Rumer Willis

  Crazy, Heart, Gay

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.

  Barney Frank

  Block, Gay, Bisexual

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• Well, one of the things we felt was missing from the greater conversation is that transgender people have been living and working in America for years...People may think it's a "new" thing; it's not...So we wanted to show not just the political side, which is what you see with Caitlyn Jenner. And not the other side with Laverne Cox, who's great.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Thinking, Years, America

  "Whoopi Goldberg Is the Fashion Week Muse We Need". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. September 12, 2016.

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• The President [Barack Obama] became quite emotional about transgender student rights, threatening to pull Department of Education funds from school districts that do not comply with federal regulations. Black children are suspended from school three times more than white children are, and there is no evidence that black children are three times as unruly.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Children, School, Emotional

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Cross-dressing is more of a set of actions or behaviors and not synonymous with gender identity (straight, gay, bisexual, transgender, among others).

  Steven Petrow

  Gay, Bisexual, Identity

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.

  Judith Butler

  People, Trying, Violence

  Source: ilga.org

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• I'd like to see feminism really be more loving. Feminists have a lot of righteous anger, and have done a lot to fight for rights. But we need a lot of love and compassion - to embrace people, to educate people. I wasn't a feminist until l I was educated about what it was. I would love to see men attend, and transgender people. Everyone is welcome.

  Annie Sprinkle

  Fighting, Men, Compassion

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Being a black transgender woman in America is really hard. It's been really hard for me. But for me living a lie was much worse. I need to be in my truth. And I've been very, very lucky that I've been able to live my dreams and I believe everyone should have the right to live their dreams. This is America. We're supposed to all have that right.

  Laverne Cox

  Dream, Lying, Believe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Reading about feminism when I was a teenager and seeing it as a young woman, I realized that feminism really hadn't dealt with sexuality; it really hadn't dealt with transgender or gay women.

  Lorna Simpson

  Teenager, Reading, Gay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

  Chaz Bono

  Transition, Rejected, Realised

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• It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time to make clear that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans are first class citizens. They are full and welcome members of our American family and they deserve the same civil rights protections as all other Americans. It is time for us to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Such discrimination is wrong and should not be tolerated.

  Tom Harkin

  Gay, Bisexual, Past

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• Liberals got gay marriage, and now they got this transgender thing going and at full speed. The things that are being aimed at undermining what have been traditionally defined as right and wrong and moral and immoral, that's been turned upside down, and it's not changing. Yet.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gay, Moral, Upside Down

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• By holding to the first woman, the first black, the first homosexual, the first transgender, the first native American, the first whatever, there is also something else more hideous that is woven into this intricate web of deceit, and that is the built-in excuse to why they might or will fail. It's because America is unjust. When you have the first woman to do something, the media questions, "Why haven't there been more?" Well, America is unfair, unjust, bigoted, sexist, and misogynistic.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Native American, Black, Deceit

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We're in Trump times - we're in the time this misogynist hate clown is the leader of the free world, and when Putin has made abusing your wife legal, and transgender bathrooms have just been disallowed in school. There are all these political setbacks. And there's no question that those setbacks are very real and need to be treated as civil-rights issues.

  Stephen Marche

  Hate, Real, School

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think worldwide, the movement has been towards accepting and respecting the individuality and the rights of gay people, lesbians and transgender people. Here, however, age-old cultural mindsets - which also comes from Victorian times, affect the thinking of people.

  Kabir Bedi

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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• I am going to ensure that LGBTQ Americans have full equality under the law and address the urgent crisis of violence against transgender women of color.

  Hillary Clinton

  Color, Law, Addresses

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I am transgender, so 'he' is not appropriate and 'she' is problematic. I haven't been one to wage war with society to force people to address me a certain way. I let people make that decision for themselves. I don't identify as a man, so 'he' is silly in a way. Being called 'she' as a trans person, trans in the sense that I'm trans, is to be honoured in an aspect of yourself.

  Antony Hegarty

  War, Silly, Men

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The current transgender movement is composed of a great number of factions, divided by those old favorites of class, race, age, language, region, and nationality.

  Kate Bornstein

  Race, Class, Numbers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My general view is that best actor best suited to role should get the job. Obviously when it comes to colour and issues of ethnicity the choice is clear. But I do not believe you have to be transgender or have undergone sex reassignment surgery to be able play a character who has.Acting is acting after all.

  Stephen Fry

  Jobs, Sex, Believe

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• At the State of the Union address last night, President Obama made history by using the words transgender, lesbian, and bisexual in that speech. It was the part of the speech where he was just reading Craigslist personals.

  Conan O'Brien

  Reading, Bisexual, Night

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• I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans people had to face back then.

  Patti Smith

  Gay, People, Faces

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Our allies, Great Britain, Australia, Israel, some of the strongest militaries in the world, allow transgender people to serve openly and have experienced no ill effects from that.

  Allyson Robinson

  Israel, Australia, People

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• We have strong statistical evidence that shows that transgender people are twice as likely as their fellow citizens to join the military, to have served in the military.

  Allyson Robinson

  Strong, Military, People

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