EJ Johnson Quotes

I struggled coming to terms with the fact that I'd been assigned female at birth, but that I didn't feel like a girl or a woman or a man or a boy.

I was assigned female at birth. My gender identify is non-binary.

When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'

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

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

The problem with the spectrum that is trans-ness and where people like Caitlyn Jenner lie, transitioning and being trans is more than a physical thing. Transition is a process.

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

It's funny. Some people now are like, 'Why would you transition? Why can't you just be comfortable how you were born?' That was my logic, but at a certain point, I realized that I was born uncomfortable.

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

Here's what's interesting about Katharine Hepburn: she was born a girl but identified as a boy, so she shaved her head and rechristened herself Jimmy.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 achieved my personal dream and completed my transition to be able to live life as a woman.

I think we all evolve as we get older, and that's normal, but I like to think that my recent transition hasn't made me into a different individual. Same person - no difference at all, just a different sex.

Gender is a spectrum.

Being transgender is not just a medical transition.

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.

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

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.

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.

My family knew that they loved me, and whatever this 'I want to be a girl' business was, it certainly wasn't about to change that.