Gender Non Conforming Quotes

“Nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“Conformity requires us to minimize our differences for the greater good. We fear that if we don't conform, we will be abandoned, but there is no loneliness like having people only see you after you've erased yourself.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“When I was really small I thought I’d do anything to change whatever was wrong with me. Now I didn’t want to change, I just wanted people to stop being mad at me all the time.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“If your organization is not formally committed to a policy of nondiscrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression or gender presentation in its employment practices, you should not expect lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender, gender-nonconforming, queer, and/or questioning patients and families to feel safe seeking out your services.”
― Kimberly D. Acquaviva, LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Guide to Transforming Professional Practice

“All the girls and women looked pretty much the same, so did all the boys and men. I couldn't find myself among the girls. I had never seen any adult woman who looked like I thought I would when I grew up. There were no women on television like the small woman reflected in this mirror, none on the streets. I knew. I was always searching.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“When out in public, and are uncertain of a person's gender… stop worrying about it. It doesn't matter. They are a person.”
― Lee Harrington, Traversing Gender: Understanding Transgender Realities

“It is deeply conservative to suggest that any sufficiently difficult woman from history -- say, one who rebelled against the constraints of femininity by dressing and acting in a masculine way -- must have been a man.”
― Helen Lewis, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

“You were showing him your muscle?”
I froze, wondering how much she had seen.
She smiled. “Sometimes it’s better to let boys
think they're stronger,” she told me.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“Asking us to push away the very walls that are constantly crushing us into small, confined boxes is toxic.”
― Jamie Windust, In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life

“The current socio-political climate, exacerbated by the media's addiction to falsifying our existence, has meant that being trans/non-binary/gender non-conforming in the twenty-first century feels like constantly trying to prove your existence... When we have to venture into the world, where we aren't heard, or listened to, it can feel like we are shouting against the wind.”
― Jamie Windust, In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life

“At the end of the day, this isn’t about who is and isn’t a woman. It’s about who performs womanhood enough. It’s about who presents themselves as being a good little pretty wifey who doesn’t stand up to men.”
― Rachel Charlton-Dailey