everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking I'm straight. I've worked hard to be discriminated against as a lesbian

People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.

I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.

You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who don't fit.

I didn't want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their rules, tried my best to please. But there was something about me that made them knit their eyebrows and frown. No one ever offered a name for what was wrong with me. That's what made me afraid it was really bad. I only came to recognize its melody through this constant refrain: 'Is that a boy or a girl?'