Trans Quotes - Page 5

• I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.

  Elton John

  Inspirational, Motivational, Jesus

  "Elton John: 'There's A Lot Of Hate In The World'". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. February 17, 2010.

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• It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.

  Laverne Cox

  World, Revolutionary, Should

  FaceBook post by Laverne Cox from Mar 18, 2014

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• The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

  Marion Nestle

  Labels, Incentives, Fats

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• At its heart, the quest that trans people are on is to have the same thing that straight — and gay — people have: the ability to wake up in the morning and be ourselves, without permission, without apology. Our lives should not be defined by wigs, or surgery, or which bathroom we use. Our lives should be defined by our identities, and the truth we bear in our hearts.

  Jennifer Finney Boylan

  Morning, Heart, Apology

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• We have a lot of trans friends. We know lots of people who have been trying to [model]; we know a lot about it.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  People, Trying, Models

  "Whoopi Goldberg Is the Fashion Week Muse We Need". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. September 12, 2016.

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• Calling a trans person by their former name is referred to as "deadnaming" and is considered highly offensive to most trans people I know.

  Steven Petrow

  Names, People, Calling

  "Civilities: Steven Petrow answers all your LGBT and straight social dilemmas for the hour". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2016.

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• Now you [Hillary Clinton] want to approve Trans-Pacific Partnership. You were totally in favor of it. Then you heard what I was saying, how bad it is, and you said, I can't win that debate.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Favors, Want

  Donald Trump's speech at the first Trump-Clinton presidential debate hosted by NBC News' anchor Lester Holt at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• You know that if you [Hillary Clinton] did win, you would approve that [Trans-Pacific Partnership], and that will be almost as bad as NAFTA. Nothing will ever top NAFTA.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Partnership, Clinton

  Source: time.com

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• He's trying to do info-tainment. He doesn't really want to talk about trans issues, he wants to sensationalize my life and not really talk about the work that I do and what the purpose of me writing this book was about.

  Janet Mock

  Book, Writing, Pride

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• The facts are - I did say I hoped it [Trans-Pacific Partnership] would be a good deal, but when it was negotiated which I was not responsible for, I concluded it wasn't. I wrote about that in my book.

  Hillary Clinton

  Book, Would Be, Facts

  Source: time.com

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• God comes through all people, in the way that people experience themselves. The beautiful part about God is that God is trans-cultural, and tends to reveal himself through the experiential filters of all people to whom he is revealed.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Beautiful, People, Filters

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Hillary Clinton wants to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership; that deal will be a disaster for North Carolina, for every state. Your state.

  Donald Trump

  Want, North Carolina, Partnership

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• You might be raised as a boy in a very conservative environment and then somehow, at some point, there was a side of me that felt really powerful and sensual in a way that was more feminine. For me, it's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just that one day you wake up feeling masculine, and one day you wake up feeling feminine. The flickering in between those two states is what's most fertile for me.

  Arca

  Girl, Powerful, Boys

  "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. November 19, 2015.

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• There are a whole bunch of people - Republicans or sports fans or reality TV fans - who probably would never have recognized that they have trans people in their world. Caitlyn Jenner really is thinking about the movement and saving lives, so I know that her intentions are honorable.

  Jill Soloway

  Sports, Reality, Thinking

  "The Woman Who Created 'Transparent' Wants You to 'Borrow White Male Privilege'". Interview with Inae Oh, www.motherjones.com. November 22, 2015.

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• Trans people deserve something vital. They deserve your respect... If you want to call me names, make jokes, doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it. But for the thousands of kids out there who are coming to terms with being true to who they are, they shouldn't have to take it.

  Bruce Jenner

  Kids, Reality, Names

  Caitlyn Jenner's ESPYs Speech, www.businessinsider.com. July 16, 2015.

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• So often, trans roles don't even go to trans actors. Most of the fabulous trans roles that have won people Oscars, we didn't get to play. A lot of folks have said we're not trained enough and that we're not prepared to do whatever.

  Laverne Cox

  Play, People, Roles

  Source: variety.com

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• I'm always skeptical about representations of trans people, especially when trans people are not making the work.

  Laverne Cox

  People, Skeptical, Representation

  Source: variety.com

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• I had a lot of questions where I had to be very frank and clinical. I had to go to school on it about what it could mean physically to be trans and the options that have to be weighed and considered. But I love that. Exploring that opens my worldview in ways that I would never be able to try.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  School, Mean, Trying

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.

  Laverne Cox

  Real, People, Transition

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• Even thought this is a remarkable story [The danish Girl] and these are two fascinating people in their own right, Lili's story had been in the public domain but this had somehow slipped out of sight. It seemed bizarre then but I couldn't have imagined releasing the film in a climate like today around trans issues and the comfort people have about it in the public eye.

  Lucinda Coxon

  Girl, Eye, Sight

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• The interesting thing about a song like 'Bulletproof Heart' - it was [originally] called 'Trans Am' - the interesting thing about the amalgamation of that song was that the song also lived within us, like we all got to live with the song and it was around for about a year before we recorded it again, so the song got to really transform, which you don't really get to do.

  Mikey Way

  Song, Heart, Years

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• I started to draw and design clothes that I couldn't find, because everything was all luxury, fashion clothes or very straight. So I mixed all of that together: Who says I can't put a man in a skirt? Who says that a man can't wear lace? Who says that men can't wear Swarovski? Who says that men can't wear makeup? You know what I'm like; for me, straight, gay, women, men, trans, we're all the same. I don't see difference.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Fashion, Gay, Makeup

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Trans women are getting killed EVERYDAY & you think the struggle is over because you can put a ring on a finger?!

  CeCe McDonald

  Struggle, Thinking, Everyday

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• In a lot of states LGBT people can be fired for just being gay or for just being trans. That's totally legal.

  Ellen Page

  Gay, People, Lgbt

  "Ellen Page and Ian Daniel on Creating Gaycation, the State of LGBT Rights in Other Countries, and Watching a Son Come Out to His Mother". Interview with John Horn, www.vulture.com. March 25, 2016.

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• A huge part of the American trans population that's often overlooked are trans teenagers. Many of them are homeless, and those are not the people who are necessarily going in for a custom suit. But that's one of the reasons why we were excited that we got to do a contest with HBO to sponsor a young person getting a suit made who might not have the means to do it on their own.

  Lena Dunham

  Teenager, Mean, Hbo

  "Lena Dunham talks Suited: Fashion is a new way into [the LGBTQ] conversation". Interview with Dana Getz, ew.com. June 20, 2016.

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