Cisnormativity Quotes

“The surest way to get a bunch of queers to do anything is to make a rule nonsensically forbidding us from doing it.”
― Zena Sharman, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care

“Cisnormativity is a set of ideas, and the practices which reflect them, that assume 'sex' is binary (male or female), that 'gender' is necessarily and always the same as 'sex', and that people live in the gender they were assigned at birth. Moreover, it assumes that genders, bodies, and personal identities match each other.”
― Melissa Vick, TRANS: Exploring Gender Identity and Gender Dysphoria

“Let me say it again so that there is no mistake: Even for those who have chosen to fully accept and affirm their 2SLGBTQIA+ siblings in Christ, until we let go of our narrow and prideful belief in the supremacy of the “normal”, we will not only continue to perpetuate harm to the already vulnerable, but we will deny the Church the opportunity to encounter aspects of the Divine only found in those who “transgress” those false and narrow boundaries.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci