I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.

The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.

We live in an uncertain world and we want to believe that what a man is and what a woman is-I know that. And people don't want to critically interrogate the world around them. Whenever I'm afraid of something or I'm threatened by something, it's because it brings up some sort of insecurity in me. I think the reality is that most of us are insecure about our gender. They think, 'Okay, if there's this trans person over here, then what does that make me?

Whether you're transgender or not, most of us get to a point in our lives where we can no longer lie to ourselves.

We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay.

When people have points of reference that are humanizing, that demystifies difference.

We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.