It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.

We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.

I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.

A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.