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

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?'

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex

More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?

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

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there

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