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“Both Iris and Reese had a sense of themselves as trans elders; despite only being in their late twenties, they were, in trans age, much older than even that trio of just-out forty-somethings sitting together on a checkered blanket.”
― Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

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“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“I got to a point where I thought I didn't need to put up with the bullshit of gender in order to satisfy my sense of self.”
― Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

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“The thing I loved most about theatre was that being a theatre kid was an easy explanation for the reason I didn't fit in.”
― Rachel Bloom, I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are

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“There's this phenomenon that you'll get sometimes - but not too often, if you're lucky - where someone you think you know says something about your gayness that you weren't expecting at all. Ben called it a tiny earthquake. I don't think he was wrong. You're destabilized, is the point. How much just depends on where the quake originated, the fault lines.”
― Bryan Washington, Memorial

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