EJ Johnson Quotes

It's obvious for example that when I am Conchita, I use the female toilet, and when I am Tom, the male toilet. I can assure you it's never a problem for women, they love it.

Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

Transgender people really are misunderstood.

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.

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

Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

What interested me, was that as we age, those seemingly unbreakable barriers that define us, our gender, they begin to crack, to blur; they're not absolutes anymore.

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?

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.

As I started to explore my gender identity, I didn't know how I could claim the title of 'feminist' without subscribing to the gender binary. I thought I had to be a proud woman to be a feminist. Then I came to the realization that I can be proud of women without necessarily identifying as one.

We are in a gender-fluid generation.

The first thing that's really important to understand, just when approaching the topic of transgender people, is that the sex you're assigned with at birth is not the same as your gender identity.

I have been gender-nonconforming my entire life.

There are so few books for little kids that actually mention the word transgender and explain what it is in simple terms.

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.

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.

We are your brothers, your daughters, your friends. We just happened to have been wrapped in a smaller package.

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.

Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.

I consider myself a boy in a dress.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

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

I believe that I am male and I am female.