Transman Quotes

“Binders have become my protective layer, my second skin, my shield that makes me feel safe and more myself.”
― Tobly McSmith, Stay Gold

“Why would you want to be one of them?" she says. ”How could you live with yourself?"
I've asked myself that so many times. How could I ever want to be a part of the section of humanity responsible for so much of my suffering? In what ways haven't men hurt me? But then again—in what ways haven't women? In what ways hasn't everyone?
I say, "I don't believe in original sin." Mary looks at me askance, frowning. “What they've done isn't my burden to bear. It's theirs.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“I glance down, taking a deep breath into
my flat chest. I think of how I’ve been treated, as Asher, as a guy, as myself.
No one here is surprised by what they see in me. Nobody here knows any
different.
“It’s perfect,” I say.”
― Kasey LeBlanc, Flyboy