Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People Quotes

“If saying a different pronoun is that difficult for us due to the cultural programming we've had around gender, we can start to get a picture of the power of the structures trapping our [trans] clients.”
― Sam Hope, Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide

“Our ideas of gender and sex being opposites does not fit the overlapping complexity of gender or sex. Is a beach part of the land or the sea? It has aspects of both, and tides that flow between two states. Some genderfluid people experience something very similar and can only say with certainty where they are right now, knowing that tomorrow they may feel very differently.”
― Sam Hope, Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide

“When Margaret Thatcher transitioned her speaking voice to a more male register to be listened to by men of the House of Commons, she was not scrutinised in the same way a trans man would be - her voice was mainly praised ... becoming more masculine is always [socially] favoured over perceived femininity.”
― Sam Hope, Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide

“I would much rather be rejected for who I am than accepted for who I am not.”
― Sam Hope, Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide

“When somebody types on their smartphone and sends a message over the internet that someone is 'unnatural', it is worth remembering that the internet and smartphones are also 'unnatural'.”
― Sam Hope, Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide

“People in a majority or socially supported position, no matter how well-meaning, are often so protected in their assumptions about the world that they do not even know they are making assumptions.”
― Sam Hope, Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide