Quotes About Gender expression

Do I think I'm transgender? Yes, 1000 percent! Do I identify as my natural born gender? 1000 percent!

I didn't even know about guys wearing makeup, like David Bowie and Boy George. When I was really young, I wasn't into that - I was into Britney Spears.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

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.

It's hard because the phrase 'woman trapped in a man's body' is thrown around a lot, but that's like shorthand. It's deeper than that. There's so much more to it.

I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.

I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.

I sometimes wish that 21st century women could wear skirts and dresses every day without looking overdressed.

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.

To be a butch girl in high school, to be better at masculinity than all the men around you, and then to be punished for it!

Nothing's too girly and nothing's too masculine. But I do love color, and maybe that's a little girly - especially pink.

I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.

And then he cried, till he laughed again, and laughed and cried together, just as a woman does. I

Nella natura femminile deve esserci qualcosa che fa sentire un uomo libero di abbandonarsi, e di esprimere i suoi sentimenti, anche i più teneri ed emotivi, senza timore che possano incrinare la sua virilità.

I am not a genuine woman, but I am not interested in genuineness.

The plain old Sam Vimes had fought back. He got rid of most of the plumes and the stupid tights, and ended up with a dress uniform that at least looked as though its owner was male. But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armourers had made a new, gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armour. It was gilt by association.

You can be any sex you like provided you act male. There's no men and women in the Watch, just a bunch of lads.

I'll have men, or I'll have women say that I'll never be a woman because I don't menstruate, or because I'm not made up like Kim Kardashian. So in that sense, I use makeup for a little bit of confidence. But for the most part, day-to-day, I wear makeup if it feels good.

I think I was scared of the drag thing, as a lot of gay boys are. It's sort of knocked out of you in junior high. I wouldn't find guys who were very feminine attractive. Then, doing 'Hedwig,' I got to be man and woman, really butch and really femme at the same time, and I realized, this is kind of the ideal.

I believe that if you want gender, then you can have it. If you want to label yourself, then sure. If you want to use history to describe who you are, then there is nothing wrong with that. But don't limit me on the way that you limit yourself.

No, Miss Palmer. What is bizarre is that I currently have a vagina .

I can't help looking gay. I put on a dress and people say, "Who's the dyke in the dress?"

Instead of saying that all gender is this or all gender id that, let's recognize that the word gender has scores of meanings built into it. It's an amalgamation of bodies, identities, and life experiences, subconscious urges, sensations, and behaviours, some of which develop organically, and others which are shaped by language and culture. Instead of saying that gender is any one single thing, let's start describing it as a holistic experience.

Or, I'm sorry, is Ichigo a him?" "Sam and Sadie say them." "Cool. When the parents can't recognize them. That moment is straight out of The Odyssey.