“ 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
