Laverne Cox Quotes

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

I do not feel that some things are masculine and others are feminine.

I was a regular little boy who also enjoyed things that girls did.

Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?

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?

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.

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

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.

I don't think I look like a boy, but I don't think androgyny is such a bad thing.

I've struggled with gender norms my whole life, always feeling like I wasn't black-and-white; I was in this gray area, and gray areas really scare people because you can't define them.

We are in a gender-fluid generation.

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

The gender question has always obsessed me.

If you don't know somebody, whether you're inquiring into their sex or their gender, it's invasive.

I don't view myself as a 'trans actor' or a 'trans model.' I mean, I am - it's part of who I am - but it's not something that solely defines me.

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 think one of the biggest misconceptions is that only gender non-conforming, non-binary, or trans people have a gender identity. But the truth is, everyone has a gender identity.

I spent so many years not understanding my own gender identity and not having the language for it, and not having those conversations, that now I'm so eager to talk about it. Then I learn more about myself and other people.

All the people that are so quick to say that, like, because I wear womenswear sometimes, that means I'm transitioning. People are just so ignorant and dumb sometimes.

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

Honestly, from a very young age, before I had the language, really - anywhere that I encountered binary, whether it was in clothing or in toys or in media, it always made me uncomfortable.

When I was growing up, I didn't know of anybody who was trans. There was always, like, this shame, anxiety thing around all of that, even if I wasn't actively expressing it.

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

Let's let our men be happy, be sad, be trans, be questioning, be bisexual, be non-conforming, be feminine, be masculine!