Quotes About Gender expression

Being an androgynous model is one thing, but a lot of what we're up against is the way we stand for certain values, such as our sexualities, or if people with our look are common enough to be part of the consumer market.

I feel more comfortable in men's clothing, and I'm a lot of more convincing as a boy than as a gendered female. But with women's clothing, I feel more empowered.

The thought of being a boy makes me cringe. I just couldn't do it.

I'm like a cross between Bettie Page and Lady Miss Kier but a guy.

Biologically, humans are divided into males and females. A male Homo sapiens has one X chromosome and one Y chromosome; a female Homo sapiens has two Xs. But 'man' and 'woman' name social, not biological, categories.

And who can speak more authoritatively of what it is like to inhabit the middle ground between biology and culture than gender-variant people? An individual who has inhabited the social roles of both and and woman, with all the cultural baggage that accrues to both states - or to neither- acquires a kind of gender gnosis: a secret knowledge denied the rest of us who live in our assigned boxes, M or F, with really probing the boundaries.

Avery important change that has yet to be made is the time we transgenders are no longer called 'sex changes'. After all, consider this: we are NOT CHANGING anything! Indeed, we are merely CORRECTING pronouns, names, manner of dress, hormones and less to MATCH what has always been in our brains...

The women I knew in those days liked the fact that I had a feminine streak, that I seemed to be sensitive and caring, that I didn't know the names of any NFL teams, that I could make a nice risotto. A lot of straight women love a female sensibility in a man, an enthusiasm that goes right up to, but unfortunately does not quite include, his being an actual woman.

So, he, uhm, all ac/ac, or a little ac/dc?" she asked, blushing, and Chase's grin about swallowed his face. "He claims to be ac/dc," he said, watching her face light up completely.

That's the definition of bisexual, Casey—pretty girls and pretty boys, it's like an all-you-can-fuck buffet!

After a murmur of general assent, Ariadne spoke up. "And oh my God, I have to pump my boobs. You guys, you don't even know. It's like having blue balls strapped to your chest!" After a horrified silence, the men practically ran screaming from the building.

You get born as a boy and then you just end up messing everything just to be a girl. In the end, nobody supports you and you die as a miserable no one. End of story."

He called me "darling" in that obnoxious way gay men sometimes do.

I believe that everyone who is human is androgynous, but I don't think there are a lot of people that are presented as truly androgynous.

Presenting myself and my gender is about my right to exist.

If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.

Being pretty... I'm just confused about it. I mean, I love getting my nails done, but I also like dressing like a boy. I think I feel most myself when I'm mixing femininity and masculinity. Like, fifty-fifty.

My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.'

This is what's hard: I know I'm legally a man, but I'm also male-minded, despite having the female appearance.

When I put on a dress, people have a lot of questions to ask, so I like putting on a dress just to get people to ask those questions and open up a dialogue.

I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy.

Tapping into a more masculine, macho culture, I got in touch with my femininity, but differently. Macho culture is also pride of the body and showing it off - a relationship to theatricality, to construction. It's about owning your narrative again.

Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.

The picture is complicated further—AIS individuals raised female have higher-than-expected rates of being gay, and of having an other-than-female or neither-female-nor-male-sex/gender self-identification.