Quotes from Jazz Jennings

Being transgender has completely turned boys off from liking me.

I feel like so many people invalidate the experience of transgender girls thinking that they aren't regular girls, but I am a normal girl.

I have a bunch of transgender friends, but they're all spread out across the country.

There are so few books for little kids that actually mention the word transgender and explain what it is in simple terms.

I want it to be that transgender is normal. Let us live our lives. Let us be happy. The world will be a better place when we have that freedom. I think I'm going to be alive to see it.

Being transgender is not just a medical transition.

I want people to feel happy in their own skins and feel accepted by society.

Ever since I could form coherent thoughts, I knew I was a girl trapped inside a boy's body. There was never any confusion in my mind. The confusing part was why no one else could see what was wrong.

I've always known exactly who I am. I was a girl trapped in a boy's body.

It's something you're born with, and you realize that you're trapped in the wrong body. It's not like one day you're like, 'I want to be transgender!'

I know that one day all transgender individuals will have the freedom to be who they are, no matter what. And we won't have to face the cruel judgments of society. We can just live our lives and be treated and respected like everyone else.

Progress can't happen just from trans people being out in the open. Society also has to truly accept transgender individuals. If society is capable of treating us equally, then we can and will live authentically.

If someone is judging you without knowing the content of your character, don't listen to them.

In the end, everyone just deserves the right to be their authentic selves, just be who they are.

I'm the youngest of four siblings and the baby of the family. My family just treated me like anyone else growing up. They taught me that everyone has a special and unique trait about them, and that mine is that I have a girl brain and a boy body.

It's so important to look out for your child and protect them.

Being transgender isn't a medical transition. It's a process of learning to love yourself for who you are.

With my own videos, I definitely have more control over what I want to put out there and what I want to say. With the TV show, I'm not the editor. There's always things that I wanted to put in there. My dad has the final say in everything on YouTube, but I can be more expressive.

I definitely secretly dream of being a mermaid.

I look at people for their souls, and I can see myself falling in love with anyone after getting to know them and developing a relationship.

Haters are our ammunition. They motivate us to continue fighting for our rights. That's why I continue to share my story.

So many transgender people in the community are being covered with this umbrella of misconception that we are going to hurt someone. But we are not trying to hurt anyone.

As I got older, I learned about how some people treated their transgender children, and I was shocked. I couldn't understand how someone would leave their child and throw them on the street. I was always taught you give your kid unconditional love and if you don't, something's wrong with you, for real.

If someone says something hurtful to you or makes you feel down on yourself, then you just gotta stay positive and keep moving forward because they might not know much about you, or they may not understand the situation.