Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

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

I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

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.