Chaz Bono Quotes

I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.

I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning basic distinctions, such as the distinction between being male and being female, it represents a threat to the social order.

I don't think gender even exists.

I've struggled with gender norms my whole life, always feeling like I wasn't black-and-white; I was in this gray area, and gray areas really scare people because you can't define them.

I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

Gender doesn't exist in my book.

We've been socialised and told that there is a way to describe people, and that way is by their gender or their sex.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

You should never be put into a mold based on your gender.

The gender question has always obsessed me.

I feel like so many people invalidate the experience of transgender girls thinking that they aren't regular girls, but I am a normal girl.

I don't understand when you say I'm a man or I have a deep voice. I know I'm a female, so there's no question for me.

I don't know what I am if I'm not a woman.

I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we've said it exists does not really exist in nature.

No one has ever seen me as feminine.

I'm quite feminine.

I grew up believing I sounded like a boy.

I originally thought I'd grow up to be a woman. I didn't question that when I was little.

I'm totally fine with myself. It's the other people I run into out there who are so hung up on gender. The way it trips them up is their problem, not mine.

I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.

We need to overcome the stereotype that genders aren't fluid.

The thought of being a boy makes me cringe. I just couldn't do it.