C. N. Lester

Quotes

• “Some critics of trans people have told us that we shouldn’t feel this pain of being denied the legitimacy of our own sel...”
• “We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we don’t see it reflected in h...”
• “Even when we are confused about someone’s gender, and don’t have a greater awareness of what it means to be trans, we ha...”
• “By claiming that our words are too hard to understand, the media perpetuates the idea that WE are too hard to understand...”
• “If we start preemptively cutting out parts of who we are because they’re ‘not feminist enough’, then we’ve failed before...”