I was against it [Trans-Pacific Partnership] once , it was finally negotiated and the terms were laid out.
Transgender women especially feel like we have to fit the binary system to a T in order to not be recognized as trans.
For the most part, there's not a ton of out and working trans comedians, or people who are visible.
On YouTube, if anything, coming out as gay or bi or trans explodes someone's popularity.
I just want people to know that. I'm not trying to make space for other trans women.
I am very close to a number of actresses who are trans and hungry for parts.
I'll go anywhere to talk about the Constitution. I believe in trans-partisan organizing around these issues.
There's still an immense amount of discrimination that happens against trans people.
It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.
My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.
Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies.
Growing up, I never saw images of trans people succeeding.
A lot of people tweet me things like, 'My 3-year-old son is trans and you inspire us.'
Now that I'm out there and it's known that I'm trans, I think that sometimes might hinder my opportunity in snagging a big cis role.
Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.
Obama and Kuczynski each promised to do all they could to enact the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Once you know trans people, all you wanna do is protect them. They're not out to hurt anybody. They are trying to live.
The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.
On the Trans-Atlantic Single-handed Race Mr Owen Smithers has been disqualified for using both hands.
Trans people are beautiful. It's a different kind of beauty, and it should be recognized and respected.
I've had the honor of working with so many trans people as a hairdresser over my career in some way.
Often, if someone wants to date me because they know I'm trans, it's for specifically sexual reasons, and it doesn't ever lead to a relationship.
In seventh grade, I met my best friend Wendi, who is a trans woman.
I don't think that I'm embracing any kind of leadership for transparency or trans advocacy.
Healthcare for trans women is a necessity. It is not elective. It is not cosmetic. It is life saving.
Hopefully I can play a role where I'm not stigmatized to just being a trans woman.
The trans fatty acids (found in animal products and cooked oils) are a factor in breast cancer.
Playing a Black trans character on a TV show is a story that needs to be told.
Trans women are a part of the female population and I think that they deserve a respectful representation.
When I was growing up, I didn't know of anybody who was trans. There was always, like, this shame, anxiety thing around all of that, even if I wasn't actively expressing it.
As a trans woman, I have always had to rise up and take the high road.
Whether straight, gay, bi, trans... body image and identity can be a struggle for us all.
I'd never have imagined it when I was younger. A trans woman on the cover of 'Time?' That is unfathomable to the 15-year-old me.
I was a big supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I worked very closely with President Obama on that.
I had the idea that I'm going to make a trans-genre film about a transgender woman.
Trans justice calls on us to combat the blend of prejudices that demean the lives and diminish the autonomy of another person.
The Trans-Siberian Express is like a cruise across an oceanic landscape. I've done it three times.
Trans folk are so often pushed to the margins and not afforded the resources and opportunities that some nontrans people are.
Let's face it: your average straight, cis-gender teenage boy isn't going to pursue a relationship with a trans-girl.
Everyone else is following these male and female tracks that have already been set for them, but when you're trans there is no trail.
I think it's really important to understand that every trans story is not the same, and we are as varied as any other group of people.
That's one of the biggest fears a lot of trans people have if they decide to come out, that they're making themselves unlovable and that they'll never have a relationship again.
It's a big deal to have Peppermint and Jiggly, two trans women, be on a pre-taped sketch for Saturday Night Live.'
My character was in 'Raya and the Last Dragon' for a second, but that's a win for all trans-kind.
We don't agree with Caitlyn Jenner deciding she is the spokesperson for trans people.
I've supported the process of getting to a good Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.
When it comes to my career, I'm an actress before I'm trans. I think people should see the talent first.
Trans women are getting killed EVERYDAY & you think the struggle is over because you can put a ring on a finger?!
By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.
Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]
Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)
It shows more courage to leave the house as a trans person than Trump has ever had to show.
More than anything, I want fans to take away an understanding of trans people that we can be anybody.
A lot of people don't perceive me as female or trans, they just see some rocker.
Stepping into the gym or going out to do sports is a scary thing for a trans person - you feel like everyone is looking at you.
I dealt with depression for my whole life. That's not something that was caused by being trans.
To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are.
When you live this trans experience, there's a point and time in your life that you almost stop developing because you don't know where to go.
Let's let our men be happy, be sad, be trans, be questioning, be bisexual, be non-conforming, be feminine, be masculine!
It would be pretty amazing for Victoria's Secret to be that huge corporation that embraces trans women. We shop there as well.
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