Top 291 Transgender Quotes & Sayings

Where I came from, it was more shocking to be an atheist than to be transgender.

I want to create a place where trans people and our allies could come together to share experiences, information and ideas. Being transgender or loving someone who is transgender can be challenging in our society and I hope that members of this site will also use this space as a place to support and encourage each other. Together, we can strengthen our community and open the hearts and minds of others.

I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't do as much for transgender as I did for, say, abused kids or battered women. And they said, "But no, you started the conversation. You started the conversation and the conversation has led us to here."

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

My own take on the word "transgender" is that it's an umbrella term for anyone who breaks any rules, laws, guidelines or protocol of gender. So, to really be an ally, it's important that you recognize and embrace your own transgender nature. Really, I haven't met a single person who doesn't break some rule of gender. In other words, we will assimilate you. Resistance is futile.

Everyone's journey to coming out as transgender is different. For me, I've know that I'm transgender my entire life.

Being transgender is not just a medical transition.

I really would like to be an advocate for LGBT youth or transgender youth, or transgender people in general.

I'm just one example of thousands of transgender veterans and people who are actively serving today.

I strongly support the rights of transgender individuals. I will not denigrate or deny their struggles.

Transgender people have served, are serving, and will continue to serve.

I don't want to be just that transgender performer or that transgender musical artist. I want to create songs and art and have those be judged on their merit alone.

My name is Sarah McBride, and I am a proud transgender American.

If what the transgender movement seeks is acceptance, association with the Kardashian circus is the last thing it needs.

The transgender community deserves the dignity and respect that most people take for granted.

If we know one thing from the transgender people who are currently serving - I'm in contact with one group that counts almost 200 people in uniform today who identify as transgender - it is a process that they have - that many of them have begun, that many of them would very much like to complete, if they could do so without putting their years at risk.

Being transgender isn't a medical transition. It's a process of learning to love yourself for who you are.

I don't know any lingerie brands that really embrace transgender women at all, to be honest.

There are so few books for little kids that actually mention the word transgender and explain what it is in simple terms.

Put simply, barring transgender people from restrooms consistent with their gender identity doesn't help anyone, and continuing to allow transgender people to access those restrooms doesn't hurt anyone.

'Clocked' means someone sees you for being transgender.

Whether you're transgender or not, most of us get to a point in our lives where we can no longer lie to ourselves.

Efforts to bar transgender people from restrooms are nothing more than an attempt to codify discrimination before our country advances any further on transgender equality.

Effective immediately, transgender Americans may serve openly, and they can no longer be discharged or otherwise separated from the military just for being transgender.

Access to public facilities like bathrooms is important for transgender people. But the fight for transgender rights does not begin and end at the bathroom door.

When I walk down the street in a dress, people think I'm transgender. The issue isn't that I'm embarrassed to be thought of as transgender: the issue is that people treat transgender individuals so violently, especially if they think it's male to female.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

Yet the transgender lobby aggressively attacks any critical voice as transphobic and tries to censor us from speaking. There is a big difference between criticism and transphobia. The transgender lobby knows that censoring criticism allows the accusation of transphobia to prevail and appears willing to distort the words of those they disagree with.

I wouldn't change myself at all. Being transgender makes me who I am: a strong person, a confident person. Being transgender gives me my personality.

For transgender kids who are struggling, I want them to know they're not alone. They shouldn't be afraid to step out of their shadows.

I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and that of a transgender woman who was asked to deliver a sermon at her Montana church and got a standing ovation from her congregation. The idea that Christianity is a blanket term that encompasses both of those attitudes seems ludicrous to me.

Transgender doesn't need to imply loud.

MMA is the most dangerous sport there is for a transgender, with all the body contact, I know that.

I am a huge fan of the transgender community.

Transgender people really are misunderstood.

Transgender women especially feel like we have to fit the binary system to a T in order to not be recognized as trans.

I hope to stop discrimination against young transgender people.

I have a bunch of transgender friends, but they're all spread out across the country.

A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.

If someone's OK with being the 'transgender girl,' that's fine, but that's not me.

I had the idea that I'm going to make a trans-genre film about a transgender woman.

I have to think about being transgender so much that it's kind of the most boring thing in the world to me.

I'm not sure how paying for transgender surgery [in the military] makes our country safer.

It was easier to forget, or be dismissive about, transgender issues when there weren't transgender staffers or interns walking the halls of the White House.

I don't even think Trump knows what transgender means. He probably thinks transgender people are those cars that turn into robots.

Transgender people, especially transgender women of color, face pervasive discrimination throughout life, including by those sworn to protect us.

2014 was a good year for transgender rights.

Being transgender has completely turned boys off from liking me.

Being LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender) in Russia is anything but fun.

Too often, when transgender people die, family members or funeral homes will end up dressing a body of a transgender person in the garments of the gender that they were assigned at birth instead of their gender identity. They're often dead-named and misgendered.

A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.

Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time

I am transgender. I knew that I was for as long as I can remember.

I am a transgender identified person.

Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

I'm not saying transgender characters should be only interpreted by transgender actors - because that would be as rigid as saying transgender actors cannot play cisgender roles, and that's not the idea.

I definitely feel that society sets expectations for transgender people to fit in and makes us feel as if we have to dress a certain way so that we blend in with everyone else. But I believe all transgender individuals should be able to wear whatever they want and not worry about fitting in.

I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television.

I am not covering stories as a transgender reporter. I'm a reporter who is transgender. Otherwise, it would be like having a black reporter only cover stories about blacks or a Hispanic reporter covering stories about Hispanics.

It took me about a year to understand and to feel the support from the transgender community.