Janet Mock Quotes

I can say with confidence that my trans/transfeminine identity emerges as the most heavily problematized aspect of my lived experience. My transness is not a problem on its own but problematized by a society that reviles it, hates it, fails to understand it - or does not wish to.

'Clocked' means someone sees you for being transgender.

Historically, we have seen cis men play trans women and vice versa. That casting breaks through the fourth wall, and it gives people the message that trans people are being played by cis men in real life, which is where we get this idea of men in dresses.

Trans women, and women in general, have so many constraints placed on our bodies. As women, we are told not to show our bodies, and as trans people, we've been told not to exist.

I think that trans women have endured a lot and they compromise a lot when dealing with cis hetero men.

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 dysphoria is never an easy thing to live with, mainly because people don't understand it.

Seeing myself as female every time I look in the mirror is painful in a way I will never be able to describe.

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.

If you don't know somebody, whether you're inquiring into their sex or their gender, it's invasive.

With trans folks, we have a lot of people accusing us of just playing dress up for whatever reasons, and that's just not true.

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

When I was five, long before I understood what the word 'gender' meant, I would always tell my mother that I wished I were a girl.

Trans women are conditioned to accept that society sees us as overly sexualized objects - even more so than how society already sexualizes cis women. It's almost as if they don't see us as fully developed human beings.

We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.

If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.

My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.

I hate female men.

I was born a woman, but I have a man's soul.

I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.

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

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.

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.