901 Quotes About Gender

To do one man’s bidding to please another man and get nothing for yourself but heartbreak

Sou um dissidente do sistema sexo-gênero. Sou a multiplicidade do cosmos encerrada num regime político e epistemológico binário gritando diante de vocês. Sou um uranista confinado nos limites do capitalismo tecnocientífico.

Celeste was plenty happy in those days, though in retrospect she was the ultimate victim of bad timing, thinking that because she was good in chemistry she should marry a doctor instead of becoming a doctor herself. Had she come along a few years later she might have missed that trap altogether.

Then he notices, he’s a he again. Why not. Gender is just a slider.

Women have waited millions of years growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.

This costume she's been so desperate for me to wear. It's all right here, covering me up. [...] I'm in drag right now. I'm a homo right now. This is worse than a Halloween costume because its not funny.

So Bibi had been born a man and was now a woman, Megan had wondered, daren’t ask, she might bite her head offAnd Megan was a woman who wondered if she should have been born a man, who was attracted to a woman who’d once been a man, who was now saying gender was full of misguided expectations anyway, even though she had herself transitioned from male to femaleThis was such head fuckery

Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being?" This type of question is a way of silencing a person's specific experiences. Of course I am a human being, but there are particular things that happen to me in the world because I am a woman. This same man, by the way, would often talk about his experience as a black man. (To which I should probably have responded: Why not your experiences as a man or as a human being? Why a black man?)

It is irrelevant whether I am male, female or neither – gender is a private matter. First and foremost, I am an individual, and my value as a human being rests on this individuality.