69 Quotes About Gender-identity

... It takes active work to step back, to create even enough space to take a breath and admit that maybe you don't know what you want, but what has been offered has never felt right.

Inside every man there is a potential woman and inside every woman resides a potential man.

So now I'm thinking about it. I'm imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, "I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls.

Whenever she imagined her child, grown up without interference from a judgemental world, she imagined its male and female halves as complementing each other, and as being secretly, almost magically powerful.

Sometimes boys grew up to be women. And girls grew up to be men.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.