Erin O'Connor Quotes

I have a lot of stories about being mistaken for a guy.

Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man.

I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.

All the people that are so quick to say that, like, because I wear womenswear sometimes, that means I'm transitioning. People are just so ignorant and dumb sometimes.

Why must she dress that way? I think she's confused about her gender.

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done.

I was a tomboy.

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

With trans folks, we have a lot of people accusing us of just playing dress up for whatever reasons, and that's just not true.

I grew up believing I sounded like a boy.

The thought of being a boy makes me cringe. I just couldn't do it.

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

I hate female men.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

I get a much more extreme reaction when I have my hair really short. I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter. It's a much more extreme reaction.