"It's a little simplistic to say trans men are privileged because they're men. I was socialized female and I transitioned at 25, so I experienced a hell of a lot of gender discrimination in a lot of directions growing up."

-- Rhys Ernst

#Growing Up Quotes #Men Quotes #Female Quotes

“The best accessories a girl can have are her closest friends.”
“It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.”
“I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.”
“The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.”
“Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to Blaine, he grabbed them, tore them up, flung the shreds into the fire, and decreed, "The other side can have a monopoly of all the dirt in this campaign.”
“As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body.Â I name myself.Â A gender abolitionist. A part time gender terrorist. An intentional mutation and intersex by design, (as opposed to diagnosis), in order to distinguish my journey from the thousands of intersex individuals who have had their 'ambiguous' bodies mutilated and disfigured in a misguided attempt at 'normalization'. I believe in crossing the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across.”
“Finding love is a two-part process. The first part is to find the right person. The second part is to be the right person.”
“Pursuing a God-ordained passion, no matter how crazy it seems, is the most responsible thing you can do.”

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