Olly Alexander Quotes

I think, for all trans people, it's not our only defining feature, but it is a defining feature.

Trans women should be accepted and celebrated, whether they look a little bit more on the masculine side of the spectrum or they're the femme of all fems.

Trans people are not a monolith.

It's good to have a free space to laugh and cry and get angry about gender and sexuality. That's one of the things I am the most thankful for from my friends and my family. They've given me the place to freely have gender be a part of our discourse.

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

I believe that I am transgender to help people understand differences. It allows me to gain perspective, to be more accepting of others, because I know what it feels like to know you're not like everyone else.

Trans women are women, we're just a different type of women.

I think that it's important to say that trans people exist, and we are valid, whether we choose to transition or not. It's really up to anyone to decide what is going to make them feel the most like themselves.

Trans women, trans men, AFAB - which is assigned female at birth - and non-binary performers, but especially trans women of color, have been doing drag for literal centuries and deserve to be equally represented and celebrated alongside cis men.

Nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and trans people have always been around, just as long as any other type of person.

Transgender doesn't need to imply loud.

There are so few books for little kids that actually mention the word transgender and explain what it is in simple terms.

Being a woman is an option, being trans is an option, and they're options that appeal to me. We need to listen to people - not labels, not semantics.

I guess all of us have a little bit of both masculinity and femininity, and bridging the gap between those two things is really fertile.

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

Kids and just young people in general are usually a lot more, I guess, open-minded to change. Especially when you're really little in elementary school, you don't expect a lot of things from people, so if somebody says, 'I'm switching genders,' you're just sort of like, 'OK, that's new. But cool.'

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

I'm in favour of hipster androgyny: Any trend that permits men to rebel against strict gender rules of appearance is going to make the world a more expressive and sensitive place for all of us.

I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.

I was a regular little boy who also enjoyed things that girls did.

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 grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.