Josie Totah Quotes

I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.

When I was really little, it was very clear to me that I felt like a boy, and my friends were all boys.

As a little kid, I was convinced that I was a guy.

I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.

I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

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.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

Seeing myself as female every time I look in the mirror is painful in a way I will never be able to describe.

I don't know what I am if I'm not a woman.

I grew up believing I sounded like a boy.

The thought of being a boy makes me cringe. I just couldn't do it.

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

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

When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.

To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.

I was born a woman, but I have a man's soul.

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.

I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy.

When I was a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl.

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

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

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.