Rob Ford Quotes

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

When I was five, I came to understand that I was not a boy.

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

Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.

For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.

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

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'

My parents started questioning me about whether or not I was transgender - whether or not I was trying to be a woman. It was a big argument.

I've always known exactly who I am. I was a girl trapped in a boy'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.

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.

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

Transgender people really are misunderstood.

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

I never went through a gender identity problem, but I did with my sexuality.

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

Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell 'my' sex change story but I've never appeared on his show for any reason... not even as a member of the studio audience.

Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

I consider myself a boy in a dress.

From the start. As early as - I felt I was in the wrong sex; I really did. I would go into my dad's room and put on his clothes.

When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gender dysphoria. This is not something that started until adolescence.

Everyone else is following these male and female tracks that have already been set for them, but when you're trans there is no trail.

I've always been Sarah. My gender identity has always existed. I've always been a woman. Gay people aren't straight before they come out as gay, and transgender people are who they are before they come out and transition.

Explaining to my children, especially my daughter, that I will be dressed as a woman, and will be playing a eunuch was a tough task.

I remember, as a child, lying in my bed at night praying that I would wake up the next day and be a girl, to be my authentic self, and to just have my family be proud of me. I remember looking into the mirror struggling to say just two words, 'I'm transgender.'