“ I know what I am. I know that I've chosen to identify as a transgender woman, and that I am - by and large - happy with where I am in this world. I'm far from perfect, and I could give you a list as l… Kate Bornstein S. Bear Bergman
“ After three hours, I come back to the waiting room. It is a cosmetic surgery office, so a little like a hotel lobby, underheated and expensively decorated, with candy in little dishes, emerald-green p… Joan Nestle Riki Anne Wilchins Clare Howell
“ Trauma or no, I would have been trans no matter what body I'd been born with. Tell the doctors that we exist for the health of humanity, which needs to find wholeness and belief in complexity. Girl in… Kate Bornstein S. Bear Bergman
“ The hardest part has been learning how to take myself seriously when the entire world is constantly telling me that femininity is always inferior to masculinity Julia Serano
“ There were things that Pumpkin Head—now not Pumpkin Head anymore—had to do to be a girl. He had to be careful how he dressed, and how he acted. He had to be careful how he talked, and he always had to… Al Sarrantonio
“ I told you I have both male and female organs.""You didn't say they were all fully functional!" Belle stared at the rapidly disappearing bulge."Damn girl, how'd you get so lucky? Shit! Belinda McBride