Being self-supporting is important to me.

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.

What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.

A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.