Jazz Jennings Quotes

'Clocked' means someone sees you for being transgender.

I don't understand when you say I'm a man or I have a deep voice. I know I'm a female, so there's no question for me.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning basic distinctions, such as the distinction between being male and being female, it represents a threat to the social order.

I don't think gender even exists.

I've given up trying to convince the world about the authenticity of my femininity.

I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

When I walk down the street in a dress, people think I'm transgender. The issue isn't that I'm embarrassed to be thought of as transgender: the issue is that people treat transgender individuals so violently, especially if they think it's male to female.

I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we've said it exists does not really exist in nature.

I'm totally fine with myself. It's the other people I run into out there who are so hung up on gender. The way it trips them up is their problem, not mine.

Gender doesn't exist in my book.

I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.

We need to overcome the stereotype that genders aren't fluid.

I wish everything was gender neutral. I wish we weren't separated by boundaries like pink and blue and little things like that. I wish we could choose how we express ourselves without hate.

Trans women, and women in general, have so many constraints placed on our bodies. As women, we are told not to show our bodies, and as trans people, we've been told not to exist.

Transgender doesn't need to imply loud.

I think that trans women have endured a lot and they compromise a lot when dealing with cis hetero men.

We've been socialised and told that there is a way to describe people, and that way is by their gender or their sex.

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

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