Sarah McBride Quotes

If someone's OK with being the 'transgender girl,' that's fine, but that's not me.

Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues.

I've always known exactly who I am. I was a girl trapped in a boy's body.

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

Some people's gender identity conforms to the sex they were assigned at birth, and some people's identity doesn't. That realization was certainly very freeing for me - and could be very freeing for other people.

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.

I spent so many years not understanding my own gender identity, not having the language to talk about it, and not feeling safe in many environments to talk about it.

It's very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it's ridiculous to a lot of people and I understand that.

There were definitely songs in the past that were me dealing with living this gender dysphoria, and sometimes they were really direct and no one picked up on it - but oftentimes, they were more veiled in metaphor.

I think, for all trans people, it's not our only defining feature, but it is a defining feature.

I was never going to become a beautiful, passable woman, and I was never going to be a man. It's a quandary. But the trans condition is a beautiful mystery; it's one of nature's best ideas.

It's hard because the phrase 'woman trapped in a man's body' is thrown around a lot, but that's like shorthand. It's deeper than that. There's so much more to it.

Transgender people really are misunderstood.

Being transgender isn't a medical transition. It's a process of learning to love yourself for who you are.

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

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

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

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

Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

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

What interested me, was that as we age, those seemingly unbreakable barriers that define us, our gender, they begin to crack, to blur; they're not absolutes anymore.

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?

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.