Fallon Fox Quotes

Number one, I don't understand a transgender. I don't understand. Is it a guy dressed up like a girl, or a girl dressed up like a guy?

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.

Transgender people really are misunderstood.

I consider myself a boy in a dress.

For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

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've never had a highly developed sense of being female. The sexuality has either been stopped, or else it's been an exaggerated P J Harvey kind of sexuality.

True transgenders do hypermasculine things.

I grew up believing I sounded like a boy.

I originally thought I'd grow up to be a woman. I didn't question that when I was little.

The thought of being a boy makes me cringe. I just couldn't do it.

The transgender bathroom thing - it's just so obvious that people are scared of what they don't understand. It's like, 'I don't want to deal with the fact that some people might have been born in the wrong body.'

This is what's hard: I know I'm legally a man, but I'm also male-minded, despite having the female appearance.

For my entire life, I've wrestled with my gender identity.

I'm not a man trapped in a woman's body. I'm a brain trapped in a human body.

Me feeling ambiguous about my gender identity has been a lifelong feeling, certainly.

For me, having a gender identity that was different from my sex assigned at birth and that wasn't seen by society felt like a constant feeling of homesickness - that unwavering ache in the pit of my stomach.

What is male and what is female? I don't always feel female.

When gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals come out, their friends and families, for the most part, understand what it feels like to love and to lust. Cisgender people have more of a challenge when it comes to transgender identities. I discovered that analogy of homesickness in conversations with my parents, in trying to bridge that empathy divide.

Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order.

Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.