Jazz Jennings Quotes

I want to make sure that people understand that, behind this national conversation around transgender rights, there are real people who hurt when they're mocked, who hurt when they're discriminated against, and who just want to be treated with dignity and respect.

I hope to stop discrimination against young transgender people.

Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.

We ask to be recognized as men.

I want it to be that transgender is normal. Let us live our lives. Let us be happy. The world will be a better place when we have that freedom. I think I'm going to be alive to see it.

We deserve the same things that cis women do, the same things that other humans do, from our social lives to our families to love.

Put simply, barring transgender people from restrooms consistent with their gender identity doesn't help anyone, and continuing to allow transgender people to access those restrooms doesn't hurt anyone.

By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.

I'm always going to support the LGBT community and equal rights for the LGBT community.

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.

LGBTQ Americans deserve a president who will always stand with them and protect their civil rights - without hesitation.

All human beings deserve equal treatment, no matter their gender identity or sexuality.

We absolutely have to support our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters. We just must. It's not fair that they don't get to live an authentic life.

I want to come and play in cities and states where transgender citizens are not discriminated against, where there's no hateful bathroom bills at the shows where I'm going to be playing.

I don't think we should be discriminating against anyone. Transgender people are people and deserve the best we can do for them.

Time and time again, we have seen a growing alliance of allies who are willing to stand with trans people, who are educating themselves on trans identity and trans equality, and who understand that our lives are worth celebrating and that our cause matters.

Let's be under no illusions: There are attacks on, for example, transgender Americans from the Oval Office, picking on troops - people willing to lay down their lives for this country - not to mention teenagers in our high schools. So we've got to end the war on trans Americans.

Access to public facilities like bathrooms is important for transgender people. But the fight for transgender rights does not begin and end at the bathroom door.

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

Being in the entertainment industry, I do have some privileges, but when I'm off sets and in the real world, I'm a trans individual whose rights and safety have been taken away.

Equality for all is what we should all want, between race, religion, gender, sexuality... it doesn't matter.

Efforts to bar transgender people from restrooms are nothing more than an attempt to codify discrimination before our country advances any further on transgender equality.

I support things that are very close to my heart: mostly LGBTQ rights.

When we have people elected into office that believe in conversion therapy and are trying to strip trans rights in the military and do these things that are directly attacking the LGBT community, I have no patience.