Terri Moore

“All I knew was how I identified, and that was enough for me. And, frankly, it should be enough for everyone else, too.”
― Nicole Maines, It Gets Better... Except When It Gets Worse: And Other Unsolicited Truths I Wish Someone Had Told Me

“Laws that are not equal for all revert to rights and privileges, something contradictory to the very nature of nation-states. The clearer the proof of their inability to treat stateless people as legal persons and the greater the extension of arbitrary rule by police decree, the more difficult it is for states to resist the temptation to deprive all citizens of legal status and rule them with an omnipotent police.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“It is that incongruity between body and mind that is the source of a tortuous physical alienation. As much as cisgender persons may like or dislike their bodies, and engage in altering or enhancing them, they don't deny their bodies are their own. It's a knowledge so intimate that it remains largely subconscious. When it comes to that physical self, for a transgender person every waking moment, every conscious breath, is a denial of who they truly are. For these people their bodies are at odds with their ideas of themselves, or their ideas of who they should be. They are estranged from the very thing that sustains them in the world, and there is no way to reconcile this conflict through psychological counseling or behavioral conditioning. There is only one way out of the alienation, and that's to make the body congruent with the mind.”
― Amy Ellis Nutt, Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family

“Yesterday, I was clever, so, I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” — Rumi 1207 - 1273 Persian poet and Sufi mystic”
― TS Candii, Becoming Candii: My True Transgender Story