Michael J. Knowles Quotes

Gender doesn't exist in my book.

I feel like there's no such thing as gender.

Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

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.

We're born man, woman and sexual beings.

I don't think gender even exists.

Number one, I don't understand a transgender. I don't understand. Is it a guy dressed up like a girl, or a girl dressed up like a guy?

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

My life isn't really that different from a biological female.

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.

Transgender people really are misunderstood.

Surely some future generation will look back and giggle, Emily Kohrs-like, when they discover that we have a government that solemnly talks about “chest-feeding” and “pregnant people,” or that a recently installed Supreme Court justice declined to define the word “woman” because she lacked biological expertise.

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.

I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.

I hate female men.

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

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.

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

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

I believe that I am male and I am female.