Never fuck anyone you wouldn't want to be.
Kate BornsteinThere's no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There's only hurting someone for your own good.
Kate BornsteinNo matter how your world falls apart-and honey, that's what happens: we all build ourselves a world, and then it falls apart-but no matter how that happens, you still have the kind heart you've had since you were a child, and that's all that really counts.
Kate BornsteinInstead of saying that all gender is this or all gender is that, let's recognize that the word gender has scores of meaning built into it. It's an amalgamation of bodies, identities, and life experiences, subconscious urges, sensations, and behaviors, some of which develop organically, and others which are shaped by language and culture. Instead of saying that gender is any one single thing, let's start describing it as a holistic experience.
Kate BornsteinTag: gender transgender gender-identity
Let's stop pretending that we have all the answers, because when it comes to gender, none of us is fucking omniscient.
Kate BornsteinTag: gender transgender gender-identity
It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.
Kate BornsteinTag: gender privilege transgender gender-identity
While railing against the manufactured prerequisites of womanhood or manhood, we need to avoid manufacturing our own prerequisites. The non-operative journey and the objection to it illustrate just one area in which we need to open our thinking to other journeys while expecting that others respect our own. - Mercedes Allen
Kate BornsteinTag: gender transition transgender gender-reassignment-surgery grs
Happy is a poor word for someone who's trying to live a rainbow-colored life in a black-and-white world.
Kate BornsteinYou can have great autonomy in the things you choose to learn and pursue on your own time. When you're learning things that interest you, challenge you, and make life worth living, getting an education can be blissful and stimulating.
Kate BornsteinTag: education
I know what I am. I know that I've chosen to identify as a transgender woman, and that I am - by and large - happy with where I am in this world. I'm far from perfect, and I could give you a list as long as my arms of the things I'd love to change. Nevertheless, I am still here, and I am still me, and no one can change that without my permission.
-Gwendolyn Ann Smith, "We're All Someone's Freak
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