Kubra Sait Quotes

It's very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it's ridiculous to a lot of people and I understand that.

I believe that I am transgender to help people understand differences. It allows me to gain perspective, to be more accepting of others, because I know what it feels like to know you're not like everyone else.

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

Being a woman is an option, being trans is an option, and they're options that appeal to me. We need to listen to people - not labels, not semantics.

I want parents out there to know that it's totally natural for kids to make believe and play games. It does not mean your child is going to be transgendered. And even if it were true, why is it such a horrible thing?

I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

Trans people are not a monolith.

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

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

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

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

When I talk about intersex, people ask me, 'But what about the locker room?' Yes, what about the locker room? If so many people feel trepidation around it, why don't we fix the locker room? There are ways to signal to children that they are not the problem, and normalization technologies are not the way.

If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

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

I think that it's important to say that trans people exist, and we are valid, whether we choose to transition or not. It's really up to anyone to decide what is going to make them feel the most like themselves.

We are on the forefront of a revolution in which identity and expression will take priority over the labels assigned to us at birth; in which self-identification will take priority over perception; in which gender will fall away entirely.

Your gender should not matter in your heart or in the way you express your personality.

Trans people are beautiful. It's a different kind of beauty, and it should be recognized and respected.

In an ideal world, we would be able to just swap characters' genders around because I don't ever wake up in the morning and think to myself, 'Oh I am such a woman today,' because that is just so ridiculous.

Nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and trans people have always been around, just as long as any other type of person.

What we really need to look at is gender fluidity and the idea that gender can be customised however you want.

Trans women should be accepted and celebrated, whether they look a little bit more on the masculine side of the spectrum or they're the femme of all fems.

The transgender community has always been a part of Hawaiian society, where people who don't conform to the binary system of man/woman, masculine/feminine are accepted or, at minimum, tolerated.

Sexuality is who you want to be with. Gender identity is who you want to be in the world.