Mtf Quotes

“One Saturday morning walking to the farmers' market with my lover she tells me she needs to look like a man on the street. She hates binding her breasts. Hates having breasts, hates not passing. I press her. I ask her, but what do you feel like when you're naked in bed with me? Do you like your body then? She is quiet. Later she tells me she had a dream. Her mother brought home a bottle of medicine from the hospital for her. The doctor says she has to take it. The medicine is testosterone.

On Shabbat I remember to pray for enough space inside of me to hold all the darkness of the night and all the sunlight of the day. I pray for enough space for transformations as miraculous as the shift from day to night.

Later when that lover has changed his name and an ex-boyfriend has come out to me as a lesbian I go to visit my best friend's sister-turned-brother-turned-sister-again and she tells me about the blessing of having many names and using them all at once.”
― M.J. Kaufman

“Being told you are not who you know yourself to be is trauma [page 321]”
― Elijah C. Nealy, Transgender Children and Youth: Cultivating Pride and Joy with Families in Transition

“What I deserved and what I could expect from life were two different things.”
― Meredith Russo, If I Was Your Girl

“Many youth who come out in adolescence report not having a strong sense of gender during preschool, kindergarten, or elementary school. Young children are physically fairly gender neutral. If a six-year-old wears girls' cloths and grows long hair, she will be seen as a girl. If the same child cuts their hair and wears boys' people will assume he is a boy. Its only with secondary sex characteristics such as breast, facial hair, and a deeper voice that clothed bodies become more clearly male or female. As a result, gender may not have seemed particularly important for some trans children. It is the onset of puberty and the increased ways they are sexed/gendered in the world that typically precipitate the emergence of adolescent onset gender dysphoria. [page 90]”
― Elijah C. Nealy

“Everybody's got a pas. " he said. "That dosen't mean you can't have a future”
― Meredith Russo, If I Was Your Girl

“Everybody's got a pas. " he said. "That doesn't mean you can't have a future”
― Meredith Russo, If I Was Your Girl

“Oh, just... usually when people are that complimentary about my appearance it's because they're trying to like... I don't know, prove to me that they're not a transphobe. Like if they say the trans girl is pretty enough times it'll make up for their feminist activism starting and ending with people who have uteruses.”
― Rosiee Thor, Life is Strange: Steph's Story

“We scream for ourselves, scream for a world that holds us back, for a world that
wants to squish us into small boxes and pretty packages, a world that sees a
baby and says “It’s a girl!” then spends every moment it can reminding the
baby, now a child, now a teenager, now someone on the cusp of adulthood,
that he’ll only ever be defined by those words said by a doctor or a nurse to
an exhausted mother, that no matter how hard he tries, his future has been
written since the first moment he came screaming into this world, will be
written until he leaves it with a final dying gasp of breath.”
― Kasey LeBlanc