Zoey Tur Quotes

I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that.

I could have hidden in Boston and lived at home for three years, gone through my transition, taken voice lessons to make my voice more feminine, gotten gender reassignment surgery, and spent time to complete my transition, but I didn't want to wait. I wanted to be in the world.

What I've learned about being trans in transition is just that sometimes good things don't happen when you try to rush things. Just as a young girl grows into a young woman, you know, we transition; we grow into our bodies the same way.

I'm a woman now.

I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.

The process of coming out, as much as other people want to couch it in terms of politics, it's a very personal journey.

I came out at 17.

Someone said to me a long time ago, 'You're a drag queen,' and at the time I was a little like... hello? But then I realized over the years that I actually am.

Like my gender, sometimes things don't come out right the first time.

I threw away all my boys' clothes and started wearing makeup.

Saying to someone 'I'm a transsexual' is the most empowering thing I've ever felt in my whole life.

I feel like the most fascinating parts of a trans life take place after the decision to transition. They take place when you're in this new body, in this new life, and you start realizing things.

Before my transition I felt trapped, and now I've been set free.

On my road to self-discovery, only certain terms were available - I didn't use 'trans' or 'transgender' until junior high school, but I was living as trans much earlier.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

I've been uncomfortable dealing with my identity since I was 16 years old.

For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.

I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality.

I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

Me in drag is kind of scary, actually. It's frightening. I actually look pretty good.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

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.'