Jazz Jennings Quotes

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

I was assigned female at birth. My gender identify is non-binary.

I was born a woman, but I have a man's soul.

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.

You wish that everyone knew what cisgender meant. Everyone has access to Google. You can find out what's appropriate to ask a trans person.

I consider myself a woman. I happen to fall into the transgender category, but I rather describe myself as a woman first.

A lot of people don't perceive me as female or trans, they just see some rocker.

I don't feel that I'm in the wrong body. I feel like this is the body I'm supposed to be in.

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.

The first thing that's really important to understand, just when approaching the topic of transgender people, is that the sex you're assigned with at birth is not the same as your gender identity.

I didn't know there were options like gender neutral or gender fluid. I later realized you could be a girl and dress like a guy.

I believe that I am male and I am female.

Some people are both genders. I think you just come out the way you come out, and you have to embrace it honestly.

I identify as a woman first, but I am also proudly trans.

I think when kids are younger, they don't have these preconceived notions of what a transsexual person is.

My parents started questioning me about whether or not I was transgender - whether or not I was trying to be a woman. It was a big argument.

My family knew that they loved me, and whatever this 'I want to be a girl' business was, it certainly wasn't about to change that.

Everyone's journey to coming out as transgender is different. For me, I've know that I'm transgender my entire life.

I am transgender. I knew that I was for as long as I can remember.

Being transgender is more than just medical books and everything, procedures. It's something spiritual in which you're finding yourself and really discovering who you are and learning to love yourself.

Being trans, I've grown up with the understanding that most women are born girls, yet some are born boys. And most men are born boys, yet some are born girls. And if you're ready for this, some people are born girls or boys and choose to identify outside our society's binary system, making them genderqueer.

I struggled coming to terms with the fact that I'd been assigned female at birth, but that I didn't feel like a girl or a woman or a man or a boy.

I had always known I was female, since I was 7 years old.

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

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.