Carmen Carrera Quotes

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

From the moment I could express myself, I acted like a stereotypical girl and insisted that I was a girl. I wasn't just a boy who liked girly things - I knew I was a girl.

I don't understand when you say I'm a man or I have a deep voice. I know I'm a female, so there's no question for me.

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.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

We're born man, woman and sexual beings.

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

'Clocked' means someone sees you for being transgender.

I identify as a woman first, but I am also proudly trans.

I have always fought against being gender specific. I just don't like being identified as female: I'm a person.

I don't know what I am if I'm not a woman.

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

Either men cannot be women or there is not such thing as a woman.

When I was five, long before I understood what the word 'gender' meant, I would always tell my mother that I wished I were a girl.

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

Gender is something that occurs in the mind, and sex is something that occurs, you know, everywhere else on the body. And whether or not those two things happen to align - well, if they do, great. If they don't, also great.

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

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

I've always been transgender, and I always will be. Having said that, my spirit is feminine. If you had to divide humanity into two groups, I would sit with the women.

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

As someone who has always felt at times pretty genderless because of my size, it interests me to challenge ideas of prejudice and femininity, and what it is to be a woman.

I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.

I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.

I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.