173 Quotes About Lgbtqia

Trauma or no, I would have been trans no matter what body I'd been born with. Tell the doctors that we exist for the health of humanity, which needs to find wholeness and belief in complexity. Girl in boy's body or boy inside a girl; call it fate or biology, will, or spiritual choice. But I was not born in the wrong body.-Scott Turner Schofield, "The Wrong Body

To the boys who get called girls,the girls who get called boys,and those who live outside these words.To those called names,and those searching for names of their own.To those who live on the edges,and in the spaces in between.I wish for you every light in the sky.

This same system could condemn injustice, but instead it chooses to condemn something as simple and fundamental as the search for the second half. We are all born wanting this. Why does it matter what shape this second half takes, provided it is the thing both sides seek?

- Have you thought about joining any clubs on your college campus as a mean to build a support system for yourself? Engaging with others who identify as you do could help bring about a level of comfort that will enable you to speak freely."Alice resisted the urge to sort. "Nah. I think those are great for some people, especially if you're the right color, not bi, and certainly not ace. So.

Love might just happen to them, but for us, it's not as easy. For us, it's a fight. Maybe someday it won't be. Maybe someday love will just be...love. But for now, love is that four-letter word they forgot we care about ever since they discovered that four-letter word, AIDS, the disease formerly known as GRID.

I'm no longer willing to bend over backwards for this unprovoked violence, no longer willing (to) take responsibility for the consequences of their rage when it invades my space and threatens my life. I will help the overwhelmed when I can, and I will live with love and mercy in my heart, but don't come at me as a screaming, rage-filled zombie and expect to be babysat. Not any longer.

Joe said of herself: 'I was never a little girl. I came out of the womb queer.

It could've been easy to say I was hurt because I'm trans, because someone singled me out for my identity, but there's something weird about that - something off, about suggesting that my identity is the thing that brought me any sort of pain. It's the opposite. Being trans brings me love. It brings me happiness. It gives me power.

Dad says I’m a late bloomer.''Maybe. Or maybe you’re blooming now, and you’re just not the kind of flower he was expecting.