Transgender Quotes

• I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Family
  • Community

• I want to come and play in cities and states where transgender citizens are not discriminated against, where there's no hateful bathroom bills at the shows where I'm going to be playing.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Play
  • Transgender

• It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.

  

  Willam Belli
  • Musician
  • Mainstream
  • Notable

• Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • True
  • Gay
  • Color

• President Obama has appointed a transgender woman to a position in the Department of Commerce. You know, in this era of partisan bickering, President Obama deserves a lot of credit for taking a chance on Ann Coulter, I think.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • President Obama
  • Transgender
  • Department of Commerce

• 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."

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Conversation

• 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 Antony and the Johnsons
  • People
  • Men
  • War

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

  

  Ed Murray
  • Community
  • Respect
  • Deserves

• Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they're - they are gay or transgender.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • People
  • Today
  • Gay

• We have strong statistical evidence that shows that transgender people are twice as likely as their fellow citizens to join the military, to have served in the military.

  

  Allyson Robinson
  • Join
  • Transgender
  • Served

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

  

  Ashton Carter
  • Serve
  • Transgender
  • Discharged

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

  

  Nicole Maines
  • Remember
  • Knew
  • Transgender

• We Democrats have become a party of assembling all these different groups, the women's caucus and the black caucus and the Hispanic caucus and the lesbian-gay-transgender caucus and so forth, and that doesn't relate to people out in rural America.

  

  Collin Peterson
  • America
  • Party
  • Democrats

• I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Understanding
  • Ideas
  • Capable

• I have a transgender nephew on my father's side of the family. So I'm extremely aware of how important it is to support and advocate for young people who are experiencing that in their lives.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Family
  • Support
  • Nephew

• 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.

  

  Kate Bornstein
  • Important
  • Person
  • Term

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

  

  Allyson Robinson
  • Continue
  • Serving
  • Transgender

• I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.

  

  Mercedes Ruehl
  • Choices
  • Physiological
  • Hypothalamus

• Our allies, Great Britain, Australia, Israel, some of the strongest militaries in the world, allow transgender people to serve openly and have experienced no ill effects from that.

  

  Allyson Robinson
  • World
  • Transgender
  • Militaries

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

  

  Mercedes Ruehl
  • Individual
  • Transgender

• Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • President
  • Nasty

• When I grew up, we didn't even talk about being gay. I didn't even hear the word lesbian when I was little. So to me, that's such huge progress to see everyone wanting to be on the right side of transgender history.

  

  Sam Bettens
  • History
  • Progress
  • Transgender

• 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
  • People
  • Convince
  • Transgender

• 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.

  

  Allyson Robinson
  • Contact
  • Serving
  • Transgender

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