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Discover the most impactful and inspirational quotes from the Transgender Quotes category. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone. Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Transgender Quotes will inspire and resonate with you.

Steven Berkoff

Transgender casting is a kind of literalism. It is the same with racial casting. This means that you can now only play Othello if you are black. There is something quite tainted about it. It is a form of racism in itself.

– Steven Berkoff

Sebastian Lelio

I’m not saying transgender characters should be only interpreted by transgender actors – because that would be as rigid as saying transgender actors cannot play cisgender roles, and that’s not the idea.

– Sebastian Lelio

Sebastian Lelio

I had the idea that I’m going to make a trans-genre film about a transgender woman.

– Sebastian Lelio

Sarah McBride

The Internet has been great for the LGBT community. I know many older transgender people who say, ‘I didn’t know there was a single person like me until I was 40.’ I can’t imagine growing up in my teenage years without access to that information.

– Sarah McBride

Sarah McBride

Whenever you tell a group of people that they can’t use bathrooms, or they can’t access spaces that other people use, that is dehumanizing. It is discriminatory, and it reinforces the stigma and the prejudices that the transgender community already faces.

– Sarah McBride

Sarah McBride

The first time I heard the word ‘transgender’ had been in a sitcom episode that mocked the potential for cisgender people to find people like me attractive. Every time someone expressed any interest in the gorgeous trans guest character – her identity still a secret to most of the main characters in the show – the laugh track would cue.

– Sarah McBride

Sarah McBride

Too often, when transgender people die, family members or funeral homes will end up dressing a body of a transgender person in the garments of the gender that they were assigned at birth instead of their gender identity. They’re often dead-named and misgendered.

– Sarah McBride

Sarah McBride

During my sophomore year at American University, I was elected president of the student body. At the same time, I was struggling with my identity and whether or not to come out as transgender.

– Sarah McBride

Sarah McBride

I remember, as a child, lying in my bed at night praying that I would wake up the next day and be a girl, to be my authentic self, and to just have my family be proud of me. I remember looking into the mirror struggling to say just two words, ‘I’m transgender.’

– Sarah McBride

Sarah McBride

Transgender people frequently face bias in court and are assigned unsupportive public defenders, factors which lead to more extreme sentences and longer incarcerations.

– Sarah McBride

Sarah McBride

Transgender people, especially transgender women of color, face pervasive discrimination throughout life, including by those sworn to protect us.

– Sarah McBride

Sarah McBride

Access to public facilities like bathrooms is important for transgender people. But the fight for transgender rights does not begin and end at the bathroom door.

– Sarah McBride

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