Nicole Maines Quotes

We're born man, woman and sexual beings.

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

I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to.

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

I'm not a man trapped in a woman's body. I'm a brain trapped in a human body.

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

I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy.

We now know that sex is complicated enough that we have to admit nature doesn't draw the line for us between male and female, or between male and intersex and female and intersex; we actually draw that line on nature.

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

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

Either men cannot be women or there is not such thing as a woman.

Bodies have a sex, but gender is a thing we made up, like your star sign or nationality. It doesn't really say anything about who you are. The destruction of gender binary would free everybody.

The first thing that's really important to understand, just when approaching the topic of transgender people, is that the sex you're assigned with at birth is not the same as your gender identity.

Sex is biological, but gender is mental.

Being trans, I've grown up with the understanding that most women are born girls, yet some are born boys. And most men are born boys, yet some are born girls. And if you're ready for this, some people are born girls or boys and choose to identify outside our society's binary system, making them genderqueer.

This is what's hard: I know I'm legally a man, but I'm also male-minded, despite having the female appearance.

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.

What is male and what is female? I don't always feel female.

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

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

Not only am I physically and emotionally attracted to women, I also wonder what being a woman would be like.

My friends would howl if I claimed I was androgynous - I'm not tall enough!