Quotes
Quotes collected during the interview process
Last Update: 5/24/19
"My parents are African Christian Catholic immigrants and every word you add to that made my situation worse."
-Let Me Get Something Off My Chest
"I was like ‘Yeah I'm trans can you help me I'm depressed’ and she was like ‘I can help you. You're not’"
-Let Me Get Something Off My Chest
"So then I had to go to the car and come out to my dad because my therapist forced me to. I could have gotten her fired but I was fourteen."
-Let Me Get Something Off My Chest
"My dad told me that my parents should have been the ones to pick my name because they got to pick in the first place. "
-Trapped in the Closet
"'You're going to hell and you need to fix yourself’"
-Let Me Get Something Off My Chest
"'God made you a black woman and I know you're struggling right now but if you just look to the bible you can fix yourself. He will forgive anyone.'”
-Let Me Get Something Off My Chest
“Well think of it this way, you're already a guy and you come downstairs in the morning and your moms like, “My daughter. She's the best.”
-Let Me Get Something Off My Chest
"If it’s not something you would ask a cis person about, probably don’t ask a trans person about it."
-Trapped in the Closet
"It feels like you’re pretending to be your worst enemy."
-A Different Perspective
"She laughed and called me “it” for a week."
-Hiding in Plain Sight
"She told me that i was not trans because that would ‘be weird’."
-Hiding in Plain Sight
“'She’s going to start living as a boy.'”
-Hiding in Plain Sight
"Being a teenager is already hard enough."
-I Have as Many Girl Points as I Have Brain Cells
"In the closet it was kinda h e l l, out of the closet it's like h e l l except I dress better and the flames hurt less."
-Let Me Get Something Off My Chest
"While some non-straight or stealth trans people may have the luxury of passing as non-lgbt, there isn’t it day that goes by where I don’t walk around openly black, trans and queer."
-Let me Get Something Off My Chest
"I can see that they see my deadname as some torture porn indie movie where in that second they’ll imagine all the friends and family that called me that name and award themselves some self-righteous trophy for knowing me now."
-Let Me Get Something Off My Chest
"The people who were supposed to love me unconditionally showed hesitance and now one of my biggest fears is that those close to me will take a closer look at who I am and not like what they see."
-Let Me Get Something Off My Chest
"As a transman even looking at a dress could be something someone would use as proof of my 'non-transness'"
-Let Me Get Something Off My Chest
"The first day I told them my new pronouns I was showered in cheers of support."
-Let Me Get Something Off My Chest