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The struggle isn't just about being straight or gay or transgender - it's a human struggle. That's always really been my kind of starting point: If you're out there and you're odd, come over to my house.
Boy George
Gay
You
Struggle
Transgender
Out
Kind
About
Point
Over
Come
House
Always
Odd
Been
Human
Just
Being
Straight
Really
Starting
Starting Point
I wanted people not to care about whether you were gay, straight, black, white, transgender, whatever it may be... That being said, there's more work to be done... I still want to change the world, absolutely.
Boy George
Work
Gay
You
Change
People
World
Care
Black
Whatever
Transgender
White
Change The World
About
More
Absolutely
Said
Still
Were
Done
May
Being
Want
Wanted
Whether
Straight
The main thing Twitter needs to focus on are implementing its rules more uniformly. If outing a transgender woman is against Twitter's rules, that needs to be implemented every time.
Brianna Wu
Time
Needs
Woman
Focus
Transgender
Every
Twitter
Every Time
Rules
Outing
More
Main
Main Thing
Implemented
Implementing
Against
Thing
To its credit, Twitter is at least making an effort to curb hate speech towards transgender people, training its staff how to respond.
Brianna Wu
Hate
People
Training
Transgender
Twitter
Respond
Towards
How
Making
Least
Curb
Effort
Staff
Credit
Speech
I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.
Chaz Bono
People
Thought
Transgender
Older
Everything
Worse
Willing
Stay
Risk
Got
Am
Off
Than
Much
Body
Who
Why
Harder
The Trevor Project provides crisis-intervention and suicide-prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens and young adults. It's truly a lifeline to so many young people who just need someone to listen to them.
Eric McCormack
Gay
People
Young
Transgender
Lesbian
Teens
Project
Bisexual
Someone
Lifeline
Adult
Truly
Provides
Questioning
Listen
Just
Young Adults
Young People
Them
Who
Many
Services
Need
Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.
Gloria Steinem
Health
Challenges
Women
People
Care
Transgender
All Women
Similarity
Obviously
Health Care
Discrimination
Much
Harassment
Workplace
Among
I'm fun, ruthless, articulate, impatient, maybe a little cavalier. I'm a woman and a feminist. I'm transgender. I'm an actress, a reluctant writer, occasionally a potato-shaped model.
Hari Nef
Woman
Transgender
Impatient
Reluctant
Ruthless
Writer
Occasionally
Feminist
Model
Articulate
Maybe
Little
Fun
Actress
Historically, our culture has not made room for the nuances of humanity. People have not been kept safe: women, people of colour, queer people, transgender people.
Indya Moore
Culture
Women
Humanity
People
Made
Transgender
Our
Colour
Safe
Queer
Been
Historically
Room
Nuances
Kept
At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or transgender. And to be honest, I am shocked they let us do it.
Jai Rodriguez
Challenge
Year
Beginning
To Be Honest
Transgender
Meetings
Ourselves
Conceptual
How
Am
Shocked
Going
Us
Each
Let Us
Each Year
Suggested
Honest
My parents started questioning me about whether or not I was transgender - whether or not I was trying to be a woman. It was a big argument.
James Charles
Me
Woman
Parents
Argument
Big
Transgender
About
Questioning
Trying
Whether
Started
On my road to self-discovery, only certain terms were available - I didn't use 'trans' or 'transgender' until junior high school, but I was living as trans much earlier.
Janet Mock
School
Transgender
Living
High
High School
Only
Road
Until
Terms
Self-Discovery
Were
Junior
Junior High
Junior High School
Available
Much
Certain
Use
Earlier
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.
Jazz Jennings
Hurt
People
Transgender
Community
Someone
Misconception
Covered
Umbrella
Trying
Going
Being
Anyone
Many
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.
Jazz Jennings
Experience
People
Girl
Transgender
Thinking
Feel
Like
Am
Normal
Normal Girl
So Many People
Regular
Many
Being transgender has completely turned boys off from liking me.
Jazz Jennings
Me
Transgender
Liking
Boy
Off
Being
Turned
Seeing states like North Carolina enacting these bathroom bills that are banning transgender individuals from using the restrooms they identify as... it's complete discrimination.
Jazz Jennings
Transgender
Complete
Bathroom
States
Carolina
Seeing
Individuals
Like
Identify
Discrimination
North
North Carolina
Banning
Bills
Using
'I Am Jazz' was more for children to understand what it means to be transgender, but with 'Being Jazz,' I wanted to get the universal message across that we are all just people, and we have to live our lives authentically.
Jazz Jennings
People
Transgender
Jazz
Live
Our
Our Lives
More
Message
Understand
Am
Get
Just
Being
Children
Wanted
Across
Means
Lives
Universal
'Clocked' means someone sees you for being transgender.
Jeffrey Tambor
You
Transgender
Someone
Sees
Being
Means
My pronouns are she, her, and hers. I identify as female, specifically as a transgender female. And my name is Josie Totah.
Josie Totah
Transgender
Hers
Name
Identify
She
Female
Specifically
Her
All our friends - so many friends are gay or lesbian and transgender. We're just in that world. We all went through the devastating time of the AIDS crisis, and I think that galvanized us to be more activists - AIDS activists.
Kate Pierson
Time
Gay
World
Transgender
Lesbian
Think
AIDS
Our
Crisis
More
Through
Devastating
Friends
Just
Us
Many
Activists
Transgender doesn't need to imply loud.
Kubra Sait
Transgender
Imply
Loud
Need
One may assume that playing a transgender is different, but I'm simply playing a third gender. Why should it make my acting process any different?
Kubra Sait
Gender
Transgender
Assume
Simply
Make
Any
May
Different
Process
Should
Acting
Why
Playing
Third
I always supported gay issues, but I never understood transgender issues. But after I heard Bruce Jenner speak so honestly, so sincerely, and so relatably, I totally got it. I totally understood what he was saying - it was so compelling.
Lynda Carter
Saying
Gay
Speak
Transgender
Honestly
Totally
Bruce
Never
He
Supported
Sincerely
Always
Got
Understood
Issues
Heard
After
Compelling
I hope I can help convince people there that being transgender is not a big deal and that we are just average people trying to go to school, work, and live good lives.
Nicole Maines
Work
Hope
Good
People
School
Big
Transgender
Live
Deal
Big Deal
Go
Trying
Just
Being
Average
Convince
Average People
Help
Lives
Cisgender actors don't take trans roles out of malice. I think it's just failure to realize the context behind having cisgender people play transgender characters because we don't see the same issue with sexuality.
Nicole Maines
Failure
People
Transgender
Think
Out
Characters
Sexuality
See
Having
Take
Because
Context
Issue
Malice
Roles
Same
Behind
Just
Realize
Actor
Play
I know from first-hand experience that separating transgender students from their peers can cause many to leave school, hide who they are, or even do the unthinkable.
Nicole Maines
Experience
Hide
School
Cause
Transgender
Peers
Students
Unthinkable
Know
First-Hand
Leave
Separating
Who
Many
Even
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