Quotes About Gender expression

I've always dressed like a dude.

While I'm out of drag, I'm still extremely effeminate.

I have been gender-nonconforming my entire life.

It used to be that I'd do drag, then get out of drag, and try and be as much of a boy as possible. That didn't feel entirely authentic for me, but it felt like what I had to do at the time.

the problem might be she calls herself "she" ...

My parents let me get my outfit in the gayest place possible, the 'International Male Catalog.' They sold mostly speedos and thongs and clubwear, and I was like, I'm getting that sheer shirt with the dragon on it, and then those vinyl patent leather pants and the cheetah platform boots.

I think artists are scared to have same-gendered pronouns in their writing, and I don't think it's because they're scared to be out, because gay artists are visible, but they don't want to alienate an audience.

There are nonbinary people, or enbys, who see gender as a spectrum—which it is—and want to express themselves anywhere along that spectrum as an act of freedom. Sometimes people call that genderfucking or genderqueer.

Most gays carry an excessive amount of shame, as there is particularly strong and widespread shaming of boys who don't display the traditional masculine traits and behaviors. If you are a gay man or woman, your wounded inner preschooler needs to hear that it is perfectly okay to be who you are.

I'm a girl and I love being a girl. Couldn't imagine having a penis.

Girls can hold hands in malls, because it's cute and it's BFF style. Guys can't, simply because they're guys.

I view myself as a male artist.

I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!

Did you hear about the Scottish drag queen? He wore pants.

Saturday you might see your dad in a T-shirt, your brother might be asked if he'd like to throw a ball around, and from a corner of the lawn you might sit and watch, wild with the wrongness of being a girl, wild with stoppered grace.

Being a girl is the best, we can wear guys clothes. If they wear ours, they get funny looks.

Obin: "it," not "he" or "she." Because they're hermaphrodites. That means male and female sex organs. Go ahead and have your giggle. I'll wait. Okay, done? Good.)

tone. "All right," she said, "but how do I go about being a boy?

As kids we were warned against playing with gender as if it were a plastic bag THIS IS NOT A TOY but here are some pictures of you in drag getting ready to head out to a party or maybe that was the party

What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

As the waiter led them among the tables, Nicolas saw that Madeline was by no means the only woman dressed as a man, or vise versa in the crowd.

to become a man (or at least an elite man) was to claim the right to speak.

It's not incidental that Comyns and Rhys were women writers during the interwar period and just after, when a lot was permitted and a lot was denied for women. No way forward? No way back? Levitate.