Jazz Jennings Quotes

For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.

When I was five, I came to understand that I was not a boy.

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

I knew that I was trans when I was three years old. Well, I didn't know 'trans' because I didn't know there was a word for it, but I just knew that in my head and my heart that I was supposed to be a girl.

It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.

I figured out who I was very early on - actually, at the age of 13, with the help of the Internet - so I knew that a transition, becoming a woman, was always something I needed to do.

I was born a girl; it just took me a little while to become one fully.

From the start. As early as - I felt I was in the wrong sex; I really did. I would go into my dad's room and put on his clothes.

I've always known exactly who I am. I was a girl trapped in a boy's body.

I was never going to become a beautiful, passable woman, and I was never going to be a man. It's a quandary. But the trans condition is a beautiful mystery; it's one of nature's best ideas.

I am transgender. I knew that I was for as long as I can remember.

I had always known I was female, since I was 7 years old.

Transsexuals are amazing. You have all the great stuff in one place.

It's hard because the phrase 'woman trapped in a man's body' is thrown around a lot, but that's like shorthand. It's deeper than that. There's so much more to it.

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

As a little kid, I was convinced that I was a guy.

I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.

Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell 'my' sex change story but I've never appeared on his show for any reason... not even as a member of the studio audience.

I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.

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

Everyone else is following these male and female tracks that have already been set for them, but when you're trans there is no trail.

Explaining to my children, especially my daughter, that I will be dressed as a woman, and will be playing a eunuch was a tough task.

I consider myself a woman. I happen to fall into the transgender category, but I rather describe myself as a woman first.

My parents started questioning me about whether or not I was transgender - whether or not I was trying to be a woman. It was a big argument.