Alice Dreger Quotes

Transgender doesn't need to imply loud.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Trans people are not a monolith.

Kids and just young people in general are usually a lot more, I guess, open-minded to change. Especially when you're really little in elementary school, you don't expect a lot of things from people, so if somebody says, 'I'm switching genders,' you're just sort of like, 'OK, that's new. But cool.'

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

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 grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.

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.

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

I love the idea that we're going to be genderless and boundaryless in the future.

What's infuriating is when cis people think celebrating me is celebrating transness.

I remember, as a child, lying in my bed at night praying that I would wake up the next day and be a girl, to be my authentic self, and to just have my family be proud of me. I remember looking into the mirror struggling to say just two words, 'I'm transgender.'

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.

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

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.

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

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.