Zoey Tur Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I'll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell 'my' sex change story but I've never appeared on his show for any reason... not even as a member of the studio audience.

I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.

I feel so much more comfortable that I've ever been. I've felt male as far back as I can remember.

I figured out who I was very early on - actually, at the age of 13, with the help of the Internet - so I knew that a transition, becoming a woman, was always something I needed to do.

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?

Gender dysphoria is never an easy thing to live with, mainly because people don't understand it.

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

Being transgender is not just a medical transition.

I was never a boy. I always was a girl in my heart, and although I was presented as a boy to the public, inside I was feminine. It was OK to be that because that's just who I was, and I can't change that. I was born that way.

When I was five, I came to understand that I was not a boy.

I remember, as a child, lying in my bed at night praying that I would wake up the next day and be a girl, to be my authentic self, and to just have my family be proud of me. I remember looking into the mirror struggling to say just two words, 'I'm transgender.'

There's power in naming yourself, in proclaiming to the world that this is who you are. Wielding this power is often a difficult step for many transgender people because it's also a very visible one.

True transgenders do hypermasculine things.

The way I see things is that, I think that transgender people are super brave. If you're a female to male, male to female, if you're that brave to take control of your own body and make it however you want it to be, more power to you.

I'm very happy with myself and I think - I always say that I think that if you feel like you're not in the right body, then by all means get to where you want to be.

Luckily for me the public have known me before my transition and I've always had the same body type.

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

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.