Nicole Maines Quotes

I want to be respected as a woman, as a mother, as a wife. That's why I transition.

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.

As a transgender child, I was always looking around for someone like me, because I thought I was the only one. It's hard to feel like that. But having support from my family changed everything. They helped me love myself and embrace who I am.

When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'

The problem with the spectrum that is trans-ness and where people like Caitlyn Jenner lie, transitioning and being trans is more than a physical thing. Transition is a process.

The speed with which modern society has adapted to accommodate the world's vast spectrum of gender and sexual identities may be the most important cultural metamorphosis of our time.

Trans people are not a monolith.

It's good to have a free space to laugh and cry and get angry about gender and sexuality. That's one of the things I am the most thankful for from my friends and my family. They've given me the place to freely have gender be a part of our discourse.

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

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

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?

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

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.

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.

Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?

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.

I've always been Sarah. My gender identity has always existed. I've always been a woman. Gay people aren't straight before they come out as gay, and transgender people are who they are before they come out and transition.

I think that someday we will live in a world where transgender people will be viewed as the multidimensional people that we are.

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

I hope to stop discrimination against young transgender people.

I'm really proud that MTV has joined the conversation about breaking down binaries.

Trans women are a part of the female population and I think that they deserve a respectful representation.

I find that, often, when I tell people what pronoun I use, I don't get a lot of backlash. I'm really lucky in that respect.

I look like a dude and feel like a dude, and it sucks. But eventually I'll flip, and I'll present as female.

Transgender doesn't need to imply loud.