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I love the idea of being without an identity, it gives me a lot of room to play around; but it makes me dizzy, having nowhere to hang my hat.

Those times when I couldn't stand what I was, and I didn't know how I could possibly be something else.

Male privilege is, in a word, violence.

... gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

Never fuck anyone you wouldn't want to be.

Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.

Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame
I'd make a really cute animated creature.

It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.

What is a man? What is a woman? And why do we have to be one or the other?

Happy is a poor word for someone who's trying to live a rainbow-colored life in a black-and-white world.

My grandmother told me something I've never forgotten. 'Never fuck anyone you wouldn't want to be.' -audience member

Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.

Is it a boy or a girl ?". There is a great answer to that one going around : "We don't know ; it hasn't told us yet.

Let's stop pretending that we have all the answers, because when it comes to gender, none of us is fucking omniscient.

Sex is f-king, everything else is gender.

There's no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There's only hurting someone for your own good.

I was obsessed, and like most obsessed people, I was the last one to know it.