“ It's an arbitrary thing if you're born with an XX or XY chromosome, but it can determine your experience of the world. It's about whether you are physically intimidating vs. being physically intimidat… Abigail Tarttelin
“ Sometimes I don't know what I am. But what I would like to be on the outside -- what I want other people to see -- is a girl. Alyssa Brugman
“ I can understand why you would want to be literally out of your own heard, because being inside your own head is unbearable. Alyssa Brugman
“ I can see where this is going, too. Of course, I can, because I am Alex as well. But I want to dress up in gorgeous clothes and strut up and down the runway like they do in the magazines, swishing my… Alyssa Brugman
“ Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one girl; one voice that speaks aloud and one that whispers in my ear; one publi… Abigail Tarttelin
“ Bodies are not only biological phenomena but also complex social creations onto which meanings have been variously composed and imposed according to time and space. Katrina Karkazis
“ You are to be pitied more than I, perhaps. I soar above all your innumerable miseries, partaking of the nature of the angels; for, as you have said, my place is not in your narrow sphere. You have the… Herculine Barbin
“ While there is no shame in being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex - or even straight (but not narrow) - there is most certainly shame and dishonor in being a homophobe, a transphobe and… Christina Engela
“ I personally believe that gender equality underlines every other equality, and certainly the issue of sexuality. For instance, if we didn’t distinguish between gender, in terms of giving different gen… Abigail Tarttelin
“ In a 1999 paper, Reiner indicates that his data show "that with time and age, children may well know what their gender is, regardless of any and all information and child-rearing to the contrary. They… Deborah Rudacille
“ That's my wish for our community, as it were, that during this very confusing and amazing time, we be gentle with ourselves, and with each other. Thea Hillman
“ I'm never going to be happy, but I could get close now, I think. I could be almost normal. I could have a friend. Alyssa Brugman
“ Oh! To live alone, always alone, in the midst of the crowd that surrounds me, without a word of love ever coming to gladden my soul, without a friendly hand reaching out to me! Herculine Barbin
“ May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you. Herculine Barbin
“ The common thread from all those stories was that talking helped, and listening, and time. One day I would find my own place. I couldn't run there, though, because it didn't exist yet; I had to build… I.W. Gregorio
“ If there's a place you should be able to put yourself first, it's in your own sexual fantasies. Alyssa Brugman
