Teddy Geiger Quotes

I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body!

I’m a gay man in a woman’s body.

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

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.

When I was growing up, I didn't know of anybody who was trans. There was always, like, this shame, anxiety thing around all of that, even if I wasn't actively expressing it.

I knew at a very early age, about 6 years old, that there was something different about me. But being young and not being exposed to people who had gender dysphoria, or role models that you see on TV today, I didn't know what it was.

From the moment I could express myself, I acted like a stereotypical girl and insisted that I was a girl. I wasn't just a boy who liked girly things - I knew I was a girl.

I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.

Some people aren't satisfied that I'm a gay man in a woman's body and swear that I'm secretly a real boy.

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

I feel so much more comfortable that I've ever been. I've felt male as far back as I can remember.

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.

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

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.

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

I was never a boy. I always was a girl in my heart, and although I was presented as a boy to the public, inside I was feminine. It was OK to be that because that's just who I was, and I can't change that. I was born that way.

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.

Luckily for me the public have known me before my transition and I've always had the same body type.

I think, for all trans people, it's not our only defining feature, but it is a defining feature.

A lot of people don't perceive me as female or trans, they just see some rocker.

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

I don't feel that I'm in the wrong body. I feel like this is the body I'm supposed to be in.

Everyone's journey to coming out as transgender is different. For me, I've know that I'm transgender my entire life.

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.

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