Jazz Jennings Quotes

Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.

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 think a lot of people are very interested in why other people are trans or why people are gay.

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

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

If I hadn't been born a woman, I would have certainly been gay.

Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

We're born man, woman and sexual beings.

Society doesn't tell you that you can be trans.

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?

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.

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.

My life isn't really that different from a biological female.

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.

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.

The first time I heard the word 'transgender' had been in a sitcom episode that mocked the potential for cisgender people to find people like me attractive. Every time someone expressed any interest in the gorgeous trans guest character - her identity still a secret to most of the main characters in the show - the laugh track would cue.

We have to look at queerness as a means towards challenging normativity.

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.

Transsexuals are amazing. You have all the great stuff in one place.

I am not a drag queen.

I think it's so funny because straight people just don't think about gender in their songs, or making a statement by talking about love.

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

Gender is irrelevant, and if you love somebody, you love somebody.

Sexuality is who you want to be with. Gender identity is who you want to be in the world.