Julia Serano

Quotes

• “We make assumptions every day about other people's genders without ever seeing their birth certificates, their chromosom...”
• “When the Majority of jokes made at the expense of trans people center on "men wearing dresses" or "men who want their pe...”
• “Whenever I hear someone who has not had a transsexual experience say that gender is just a construct or merely a perform...”
• “I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many people—who are neither medical professionals nor trans themselves—would w...”
• “It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op” or “post-op...”
• “In trans women's eyes, I see a wisdom that can only come from having to fight for your right to be recognized as female,...”
• “And in most queer communities, regardless of one's sex or identity, people who are more masculine in gender expression a...”
• “Consider that people will talk about the fact that I now "pass" as a woman, but nobody ever asks about how difficult it ...”
• “The hardest part has been learning how to take myself seriously when the entire world is constantly telling me that femi...”
• “The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behavior...”