#gender

I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#attracted #confused #feel #gender #how

For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#eye #fear #handle #hard #having

Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But I'm an activist - that's just the kind of person I am. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#am #gay #i #i am #just

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#dance #gender #going #me #people

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected? ↗

— Chastity Bono

#else #everyone #how #i #life

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#difference #free #gender #nature #notions

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#come #conditioned #cultures #gender #happen

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#awareness #becomes #begin #being #disappears

The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#gender-stereotypes #men-and-women #funny

We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender. ↗

— Judge Mills Lane

#creed #focus #gender #must #people