Nicole Maines Quotes

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

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

I am transgender. I knew that I was for as long as I can remember.

Transgender people really are misunderstood.

If someone asks about sexual reassignment surgery, you are supposed to say, 'Why are we talking about that?' But I am a post-op transsexual. And I am a reporter. If you can explain and talk about it, you demystify it. And if you demystify it, it's not an issue.

I was never a boy. I always was a girl in my heart, and although I was presented as a boy to the public, inside I was feminine. It was OK to be that because that's just who I was, and I can't change that. I was born that way.

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.

You wish that everyone knew what cisgender meant. Everyone has access to Google. You can find out what's appropriate to ask a trans person.

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

True transgenders do hypermasculine things.

With trans folks, we have a lot of people accusing us of just playing dress up for whatever reasons, and that's just not true.

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.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I'll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

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.

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.

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 was born a woman, but I have a man's soul.

We're born man, woman and sexual beings.

Society doesn't tell you that you can be trans.

Number one, I don't understand a transgender. I don't understand. Is it a guy dressed up like a girl, or a girl dressed up like a guy?

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

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

It's true. I'm not a spokesperson. But I can say now that transgendered people like to be heard and to be respected.