95 Quotes by Sarah McBride

I think it's really difficult for folks that aren't transgender to really wrap their mind around the feeling of having a gender identity that differs from their sex assigned at birth. But for me, it felt like a constant feeling of homesickness.

There's no question that the best way to get people to care about an issue is to humanize it.

When gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals come out, their friends and families, for the most part, understand what it feels like to love and to lust. Cisgender people have more of a challenge when it comes to transgender identities. I discovered that analogy of homesickness in conversations with my parents, in trying to bridge that empathy divide.

We have to open hearts and change minds while at the same time pushing for laws that protect LGBTQ people from discrimination.

Time and time again, we have seen a growing alliance of allies who are willing to stand with trans people, who are educating themselves on trans identity and trans equality, and who understand that our lives are worth celebrating and that our cause matters.

Transgender people, especially transgender women of color, face pervasive discrimination throughout life, including by those sworn to protect us.

Trans justice calls on us to combat the blend of prejudices that demean the lives and diminish the autonomy of another person.

Andy and I decided to get married in August of 2014, and just 4 days after we married, he passed away. For me, I carry my relationship with Andy with me in my LGBT advocacy work.

When the boys and girls would line up separately in kindergarten, I'd find myself longing to be in the other line.