Transgender Warriors Quotes

“We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly and proudly...when our lives are suppressed, everyone is denied an understanding of the rich diversity of sex and gender expression and experience that exist in human society.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman

“But if theory is not the crystallized resin of experience, it ceases to be a guide to action.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman

“Are you a guy or a girl?
I've heard the question all my life. The answer is not so simple, since there are no pronouns in the English language as complex as I am, and I do not want to simplify myself in order to neatly fit one or the other.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman

“It is not the words in and of themselves that are important to me - it's our lives. The struggle of trans people over the centuries is not his-story or her-story. It is our-story.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman