Judith Butler Quotes

I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.

Society doesn't tell you that you can be trans.

I do say gender fluid, because I experience my gender identity as being fluid because it's on a spectrum.

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

Some people's gender identity conforms to the sex they were assigned at birth, and some people's identity doesn't. That realization was certainly very freeing for me - and could be very freeing for other people.

Me feeling ambiguous about my gender identity has been a lifelong feeling, certainly.

If someone's OK with being the 'transgender girl,' that's fine, but that's not me.

I spent so many years not understanding my own gender identity, not having the language to talk about it, and not feeling safe in many environments to talk about it.

I think it's really difficult for folks that aren't transgender to really wrap their mind around the feeling of having a gender identity that differs from their sex assigned at birth. But for me, it felt like a constant feeling of homesickness.

Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other.

I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?

I do know that some people believe that I see gender as a "choice" rather than as an essential and firmly fixed sense of self. My view is actually not that. No matter whether one feels one's gendered and sexed reality to be firmly fixed or less so, every person should have the right to determine the legal and linguistic terms of their embodied lives.

I am very gender-fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral.

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.

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

Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.

Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.

I always had this idea that, 'Sure, I wished I was a boy and felt more like a boy and all of that.' But I wasn't, so I would deal with it. And I for some reason thought there were other lesbians that felt that way and that was just part of that community.

I believe gender is a spectrum, and I fall somewhere between Channing Tatum and Winnie the Pooh.

… a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness for a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman

If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues.

There were definitely songs in the past that were me dealing with living this gender dysphoria, and sometimes they were really direct and no one picked up on it - but oftentimes, they were more veiled in metaphor.

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