Nicole Maines Quotes

United States, Actress
October 7, 1997

Nicole Amber Maines is an American actress also known for being Susan Doe in the Maine Supreme Judicial Court case Doe v. Regional School Unit 26 regarding gender identity and bathroom use in schools. Maines, who is transgender, was barred from using the female bathroom after a complaint; however, the court ruled denying a transgender student access to the bathroom consistent with their gender identity is unlawful.

Now that we've seen broader representation of trans identities, I think it's safer to explore the fault in these trans characters and make them entirely human and three dimensional.

Nicole Maines
- Explore
- Trans
- Identities
The first thing that's really important to understand, just when approaching the topic of transgender people, is that the sex you're assigned with at birth is not the same as your gender identity.

Nicole Maines
- Identity
- Birth
- Gender

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

Nicole Maines
I think it is necessary to educate folks on trans issues and to make them aware of trans identities and normalise it, because it is normal. But when you're shielded from something, and it's actively censored, it takes a negative connotation.

Nicole Maines
I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we've said it exists does not really exist in nature. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/nicole-maines-quotes_2

Nicole Maines
- Society
- Built
- Gender
Gender is a spectrum, and that's something that a lot of folks don't understand.

Nicole Maines
Cisgender actors don't take trans roles out of malice. I think it's just failure to realize the context behind having cisgender people play transgender characters because we don't see the same issue with sexuality.

Nicole Maines
I hope I can help convince people there that being transgender is not a big deal and that we are just average people trying to go to school, work, and live good lives.

Nicole Maines

Having trans people play trans roles show that we are valid in our identities, and we exist.

Nicole Maines
- Roles
- Exist
- Identities
My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.

Nicole Maines
- Support
- Acting
- Activism