Candis Cayne Quotes

I wouldn't change myself at all. Being transgender makes me who I am: a strong person, a confident person. Being transgender gives me my personality.

We just want to help people understand that it's okay to be transgender, and they're just like everyone else.

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

It's true. I'm not a spokesperson. But I can say now that transgendered people like to be heard and to be respected.

We don't agree with Caitlyn Jenner deciding she is the spokesperson for trans people.

It was easier to forget, or be dismissive about, transgender issues when there weren't transgender staffers or interns walking the halls of the White House.

I would hope that one day there will be a time when it's not so much about transgender, it's just people will just see us as women.

It's OK to be talking to one another about what it means to be transgender. We don't have to shield everyone from the existence of people like me.

I always knew that transgenders are allowed to join Miss Universe and win Miss Universe. So they're welcome to join.

It's OK not to understand the whole trans thing. That's alright. My dad didn't understand it. I still don't know everything. What's important is you sort of educate yourself on your own time, but you have to respect it on everyone else's time. Because no one should have to wait for equality.

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

I want parents out there to know that it's totally natural for kids to make believe and play games. It does not mean your child is going to be transgendered. And even if it were true, why is it such a horrible thing?

Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of the human condition that makes each individual unique, and something over which we have no control. We are who we are in the deepest recesses of our minds, hearts and identities.

Transgender women especially feel like we have to fit the binary system to a T in order to not be recognized as trans.

I believe that I am transgender to help people understand differences. It allows me to gain perspective, to be more accepting of others, because I know what it feels like to know you're not like everyone else.

I hope I can help convince people there that being transgender is not a big deal and that we are just average people trying to go to school, work, and live good lives.

Transgender doesn't need to imply loud.

It just so happens that I'm trans. It shouldn't have to be like 'Oh, that's the trans model selling the trans clothes.'

If no one knew that I was trans - let's say that I made it very, very far. Let's say I went to the UFC and became a UFC champion, even, won the belt title, took it home and no one ever knew - that would be great for me.

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

I don't know any lingerie brands that really embrace transgender women at all, to be honest.

North Carolina was on the vanguard of being for [ trans rights ], and that's why we're seeing this push back. The conservatives noticed that there had been a lot of progress and they tried to tamp it down.

Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

Between 'Orange' with Laverne, the show 'Transparent,' and Caitlyn Jenner, obviously we're in the middle of something enormous - a transgender movement. I'm just proud to be alive during this massive shift in the world.

It's very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it's ridiculous to a lot of people and I understand that.