Trans People Quotes

“Tell me what you need to tell me but keep far away from my son who
still loves a beautiful thing not for what it means—
this way or that—but for the way facets set off prisms and prisms spin up
everywhere
and from his own jeweled body he’s cast rainbows—made every shining
true color.

Now try to tell me—man or woman—your heart was ever once that brave.”
― Victoria Redel

“The existence of trans people presents a threat to one of the central tenets of the white-supremacist, capitalist state - that we all need to just accept our place within its violent system.”
― Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons

“Trans people's counter-conception of gender as a joyful and imaginative experience rattles these 'trans-exclusionary radical feminists' or TERFs, for whom gender is simply indicative of one's biologically defined position in a hierarchy of violence.”
― Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons

“What have I ever done that God should make me suffer so? I feel that my abnormality bars me out of the ministry, the profession of my choice, and most likely out of all other professions. I feel that this passion is going to wreck my life, and never permit me to make any return to my parents for all they have done for me. I have no hope for the future. In the convention, while I would be singing, I was in thought hacking my body to pieces with a sword, or piercing my breast with a dagger. My continuous prayer was :

‘ Father, Father, hear my humble cry.

While on others thou art smiling,

Do not pass me by !”
― Jennie June, Autobiography of an Androgyne

“I think Democrats struggle with extending one of our basic principles—which is that no one is their worst act, no one is their worst belief—to people on the other side of the political divide. I’m not talking about Donald Trump right now. I’m talking about Republicans. The question here is not how do I demonstrate grace in the face of Donald Trump; it’s how do I demonstrate grace in a world where people that I work with—where even people that I represent—hold positions and beliefs about who I am that are personally hurtful, potentially.”
― Sarah McBride

“You may not agree with me on trans issues, maybe we have a different point of view. I hope you understand that we're not always gonna see eye-to-eye, we're not always gonna have the same point of view. But here's what I really want to talk about. I want to talk about what we're gonna do to take on the corruption, I wanna talk about what we're gonna do to make the healthcare system fair, to make the tax code fair. Whatever it might be.

Building an authentic connection with people on the issues they care about most--and they DO NOT care about these issues the most--gives you space to disagree.”
― Jon Lovett