Jazz Jennings Quotes
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I want people to feel happy in their own skins and feel accepted by society.
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I wish everything was gender neutral. I wish we weren't separated by boundaries like pink and blue and little things like that. I wish we could choose how we express ourselves without hate.
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A lot of people - boys - look at me differently. They think that if they date me, they are gay because they are dating another boy. In instances like this, I feel almost excluded, if that's the right word. I feel like I'm being put on a different shelf.
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I don't really care what people think of me.
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I've always loved mermaids!
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I feel like so many people invalidate the experience of transgender girls thinking that they aren't regular girls, but I am a normal girl.
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There are so few books for little kids that actually mention the word transgender and explain what it is in simple terms.
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I think being a teenager is a difficult journey in and of itself, but being transgender makes it that much harder.
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I have a bunch of transgender friends, but they're all spread out across the country.
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Let's face it: your average straight, cis-gender teenage boy isn't going to pursue a relationship with a trans-girl.
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The more words I learned, the more I started to verbalize my feelings. Whenever my mom or dad would compliment me by saying something like 'Good boy,' I'd immediately correct them. 'No. Good girl.'
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It's something you're born with, and you realize that you're trapped in the wrong body. It's not like one day you're like, 'I want to be transgender!'
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I want to show people they don't have to be scared of being different.
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Bras should be comfortable. I hate when you have all those bras with all that wiring that poke into your ribs, and you take it off at the end of the day, and it feels good. It shouldn't feel good to take off your bra at the end of the day. It should be something that feels good throughout the day.
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If you don't have the love and support of your family, you need to find someone out there who you can confide in and share your concerns and worries with. And someone who can lift your spirits and make you feel valuable and strong and powerful.
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Being transgender is not just a medical transition.
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In the end, everyone just deserves the right to be their authentic selves, just be who they are.
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I was never a boy. I always was a girl in my heart, and although I was presented as a boy to the public, inside I was feminine. It was OK to be that because that's just who I was, and I can't change that. I was born that way.
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I'm open, and I'm out there, but I also enjoy being alone, relaxing.
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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.
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Being transgender is more than just medical books and everything, procedures. It's something spiritual in which you're finding yourself and really discovering who you are and learning to love yourself.
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I'm just attracted to people for who they are on the inside.
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Having transgender characters leads to more visibility, which creates education. Education can hopefully lead to everyone treating our community with acceptance and love.
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Bathrooms have always been a big issue in my life. My parents fought for me to be able to enroll in elementary school as a girl, which I did. But I still would not be allowed to use the girls' room under any condition.