Genesis P-Orridge Quotes

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

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

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

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

I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy.

I believe that I am male and I am female.

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?

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

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 am very gender fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral. I cop a fair bit of flack for going from 'such a babe to such a boy.'

I consider myself a boy in a dress.

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

I believe gender is a spectrum, and I fall somewhere between Channing Tatum and Winnie the Pooh.

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

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

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.

When I started 'Rent,' I already had an idea of how I was going to portray Angel, simply because of who I was at that moment. Everyone always perceived her as a drag queen, but the reality of the matter is that I truly believe she was a trans woman.

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

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.

Ever since I could form coherent thoughts, I knew I was a girl trapped inside a boy's body. There was never any confusion in my mind. The confusing part was why no one else could see what was wrong.

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

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

I think it's really difficult for folks that aren't transgender to really wrap their mind around the feeling of having a gender identity that differs from their sex assigned at birth. But for me, it felt like a constant feeling of homesickness.

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.