Asia Kate Dillon Quotes

If someone's OK with being the 'transgender girl,' that's fine, but that's not me.

I spent so many years not understanding my own gender identity, not having the language to talk about it, and not feeling safe in many environments to talk about it.

I think it's really difficult for folks that aren't transgender to really wrap their mind around the feeling of having a gender identity that differs from their sex assigned at birth. But for me, it felt like a constant feeling of homesickness.

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

I don't feel that I'm in the wrong body. I feel like this is the body I'm supposed to be in.

I was in the seventh grade when I first began to identify as trans and express my gender identity as a girl. My social transition began with growing my hair and wearing clothes and makeup that made me feel like Destiny's Fourth Child.

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

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.

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

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

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

I was never going to become a beautiful, passable woman, and I was never going to be a man. It's a quandary. But the trans condition is a beautiful mystery; it's one of nature's best ideas.

Being transgender is more than just medical books and everything, procedures. It's something spiritual in which you're finding yourself and really discovering who you are and learning to love yourself.

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.

I had always known I was female, since I was 7 years old.

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

Male? Female? It's not always relevant to some people. They are who they are - they might not fit into a specific box.

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

I quite like androgyny.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

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.

I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.

Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy.