Lachlan Watson Quotes

For me, having a gender identity that was different from my sex assigned at birth and that wasn't seen by society felt like a constant feeling of homesickness - that unwavering ache in the pit of my stomach.

When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.

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

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.

You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.

When I was really little, it was very clear to me that I felt like a boy, and my friends were all boys.

I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.

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

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

I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

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.

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

I grew up believing I sounded like a boy.

I originally thought I'd grow up to be a woman. I didn't question that when I was little.

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

I was very worried about being unattractive because I think I look quite masculine. Sometimes I feel more masculine than feminine and I don't like it.

I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy. I didn't want to be a girl. I didn't feel like a man inside... being a boy was just cooler.

I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

I have a few girlfriends, but nearly all my friends are guys. I don't think I ever wore girl clothes. I wore baggy jeans, baggy T-shirts, sweaters, just to avoid the looks that everyone gives you when you're a young female in the world.

I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

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.

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.

For all intents and purposes, I'm 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.