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“Gender non-conforming people face considerable distress not because we have a disorder, but because of stigma and discrimination. There is nothing wrong with us, what is wrong is a world that punishes us for not being normatively masculine or feminine.”
― Beyond the Gender Binary
― Beyond the Gender Binary
“I suppose some people wanted to protect me from bullying and didn’t realize that they were bullying me in the process.”
― Beyond the Gender Binary
― Beyond the Gender Binary
“Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“It’s not just that you internalize the shame; rather, it becomes you. You no longer need the people at school telling you not to dress like that; you already do it to yourself.”
― Beyond the Gender Binary
― Beyond the Gender Binary
“How noble and good everyone could be if, at the end of each day, they were to review their own behavior and weigh up the rights and wrongs. They would automatically try to do better at the start of each new day and, after a while, would certainly accomplish a great deal. Everyone is welcome to this prescription; it costs nothing and is definitely useful. Those who don’t know will have to find out by experience that “a quiet conscience gives you strength!”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
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