Janet Mock Quotes

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

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

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

What's infuriating is when cis people think celebrating me is celebrating transness.

This entire issue of transgender people posing a kind of threat to cisgender women in bathrooms is made up. We are just like everybody else - we go into the bathroom, we keep our heads down, we don't look at anybody.

Trans women are a part of the female population and I think that they deserve a respectful representation.

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.

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.'

I am a trans woman. My sisters are trans women. We are not secrets. We are not shameful. We are worthy of respect, desire, and love. As there are many kinds of women, there are many kinds of men, and many men desire many kinds of women, trans women are amongst these women. And let’s be clear: Trans women are women.

I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.

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?

I think what people need to realize is that, with trans people, we're like everybody else. No group of people are all the same. All women are not the same, all men are not the same, all children are not the same. It's the same thing with trans people - we're all so different, we have different goals, different dreams, and different aspirations.

From the very beginning, I think it's been quite clear that there's no way I could possibly say that trans women are not women. It's the sort of thing to me that's obvious, so I start from that obvious premise.

I don't think it's a good thing to talk about women's issues being exactly the same as the issues of trans women because I don't think that's true.

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

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

Trans women are women, we're just a different type of women.

I strongly support the rights of transgender individuals. I will not denigrate or deny their struggles.

I want to be able to supply the knowledge that transgender women need in order to live peacefully and become accepted among all men and women.

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.

We exist in a culture where trans people are constantly delegitimized.

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.

Trans women, trans men, AFAB - which is assigned female at birth - and non-binary performers, but especially trans women of color, have been doing drag for literal centuries and deserve to be equally represented and celebrated alongside cis men.

It would be pretty amazing for Victoria's Secret to be that huge corporation that embraces trans women. We shop there as well.