Trans Quotes - Page 3

• Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into a men's shelter where they face enormous danger, or remaining street homeless and facing the violence, harassment, arrest, and exposure risks of that.

  Dean Spade

  Men, People, Risk

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• It happens all the time! People are always talking about that explosive moment in their family history that sort of changed everything and rattled the cage, and more times than not it has nothing to do with trans issues. That's why people are relating to the show Transparent, because our family is their family and they understand that dynamic.

  Judith Light

  Talking, Issues, People

  "Jeffrey Tambor and Judith Light on the NSFW ‘Transparent’ Scene Everyone Will Be Talking About". Interview with Zack Sharf, www.indiewire.com. December 11, 2015.

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• What a waste of an education Rick Santorum is! ... Let's just pray that none of his home-schooled kids grow up to be an airline pilot, okay? That's all I'm asking. Please dear God, do not let any of these home-schooled kids grow up to be a surgeon, an airline pilot, or a nurse. Or somebody that's in charge of my trans-vaginal mandatory ultrasound. Seriously, no science-y things for them, you know, just religion, let them be all preachers or something.

  Randi Rhodes

  Growing Up, Kids, Home

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• Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.

  Thomas Merton

  Religious, Consciousness, Form

  Thomas Merton (2000). “Thoughts On The East”, p.43, A&C Black

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• America needs an ineffective president. That's much better than an effective president that's going to go to war with Russia, that's going to push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that's going to protect Wall Street, and that's going to oppose neoliberal austerity. I would much rather have an ineffective president than someone who's going to do these bad things that I fear is going to come from Hillary and the Democratic Party.

  Michael Hudson

  Wall, War, Party

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It is easier to talk about issues; it is easier to say you're a feminist because it's actually awesome to be one. The panopoly of people identifying as feminists is really excellent now that we've come to a point where all these really interesting voices are rising up and saying they're feminists - women of color, trans people, gay folks, everybody. It's an exciting time to actually define as that because it means that people are really feeling like their voice is what's the most important thing in the movement, and I love that.

  Lizz Winstead

  Mean, Gay, Voice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One particular debate that I have seen play out again and again is whether trans people who have more traditional gender expressions or who "pass" more should be the ones who are represented. A recent advocacy guide focused on advocating around trans health care access produced by the largest trans advocacy organization in the US instructs readers that advocacy will be more successful if the message is delivered by people who pass as non-trans men and women.

  Dean Spade

  Successful, Men, Expression

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• We see an ever-increasing move toward inter and trans- disciplinary attacks upon problems in the real world ... The system scientist has a central role to play in this new order, and that role is to first of all understand ways and means of how to encode the natural world into "good" formal structures.

  John L. Casti

  Real, Moving, Mean

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• You can support trans-positive legislation, tranny artists, and the inclusion of trannies in your neighborhood, schools, place of worship, whatever. For the long term? Join or initiate some good legal battles against the puritanical laws that exist around sex and gender.

  Kate Bornstein

  Sex, School, Artist

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Military inclusion has never been a central demand from trans populations, who consistently name criminalization, immigration enforcement, poverty and joblessness as top priorities.

  Dean Spade

  Military, Names, Priorities

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I wrote Normal Life using concepts that have been helpful to me, and hoping to offer those as accessible tools for thinking differently about the pitfalls trans resistance faces, in particular the temptation to focus on legal equality and the limitations of that approach, and the alternative approaches being taken by racial and economic justice focused trans activists.

  Dean Spade

  Taken, Thinking, Justice

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• There are sharply different, competing models of what trans advocacy looks like - those that seek to follow the path laid out by the most visible and well-funded lesbian and gay rights organizations in the US and those that seek to use grassroots strategies, center issues of race and poverty, and aim to dismantle harmful institutions and conditions to redistribute life chances.

  Dean Spade

  Gay, Organization, Issues

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.

  Dean Spade

  Rights, People, Conservative

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• As trans advocacy has institutionalized and developed, the context of the undemocratic nature of US non-profits and the ways that white, wealthy individuals can intensely influence the directions of advocacy have increasingly come to the surface for trans activists.

  Dean Spade

  White, Way, Influence

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea. To say that divinity informs the world and all things is condemned as pantheism. But pantheism is a misleading word. It suggests that a personal god is supposed to inhabit the world, but that is not the idea at all. The idea is trans-theological. It is of an indefinable, inconceivable mystery, thought of as a power, that is the source and end and supporting ground of all life and being.

  Joseph Campbell

  Nature, Animal, Sea

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.40, Anchor

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• I am transgender, so 'he' is not appropriate and 'she' is problematic. I haven't been one to wage war with society to force people to address me a certain way. I let people make that decision for themselves. I don't identify as a man, so 'he' is silly in a way. Being called 'she' as a trans person, trans in the sense that I'm trans, is to be honoured in an aspect of yourself.

  Antony Hegarty

  War, Silly, Men

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The transgender movement even divides itself up by gender, as many folks stick with their same trans-genders (female-to-male or male-to-female). Additionally, the movement gets strangely subdivided among, for example, male cross-dressers, sissy boys, butch women, femme dykes, drag kings, drag queens, transvestites, intersexed, transsexuals (post-op, pre-op, and non-op).

  Kate Bornstein

  Queens, Kings, Boys

  "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• I am arguing that it is a mistake for trans activists to focus our resources and attention on winning inclusion in legal equality frameworks, such as anti-discrimination laws and hate crimes laws, that will not provide relief from the life-shortening conditions trans populations are facing. Winning legal equality - getting the law to cast us as victims of discrimination who the state will protect - will not support our survival.

  Dean Spade

  Hate, Mistake, Winning

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach.

  Dean Spade

  Different, Movement, Resistance

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• 'Normal Life' looks at the current moment in trans politics, understanding that it is often assumed that trans resistance strategies should mimic the lesbian and gay legal rights frameworks that have become so visible in recent decades.

  Dean Spade

  Gay, Rights, Understanding

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• There is some conflict between religion and science in my world, but that's nothing new. Science, at its root, is a rational discipline. Religion, on the other hand, is fundamentally trans-rational. Both of them attempt to solve problems, but since their methodology is vastly different, they can't help but come into conflict.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Roots, Hands, Discipline

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• How can you go wrong with two people in love? Goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation. Love is love, and there will never be too much.

  Fiona Apple

  Inspirational, Motivational, Gay

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• When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

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• I've been embraced by a new community. That's what happens when you're finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.

  Chaz Bono

  Inspirational, Motivational, Gay

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• Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming" threads in gay and lesbian politics and feminist politics.

  Dean Spade

  Gay, Feminist, Poverty

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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