11 quotes found
“Trying to take away someones language is usually the first step in trying to change them.”
“Trying to take away someone’s language is usually the first step in trying to change them.”
“When we are surrounded by such diversity - in nature, in culture, in human spirit - how can we stand not to acknowledge it?”
“If we start preemptively cutting out parts of who we are because theyre not feminist enough, then weve failed before weve begun.”
“If we start preemptively cutting out parts of who we are because they’re ‘not feminist enough’, then we’ve failed before we’ve begun.”
“Some critics of trans people have told us that we shouldnt feel this pain of being denied the legitimacy of our own selves; gender is, of course, just a social construct. I wonder if these people a...”
“By claiming that our words are too hard to understand, the media perpetuates the idea that WE are too hard to understand, and suggests that theres no point in trying.”
“We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we dont see it reflected in history textbooks and in recent memory then it cannot have existed for long.”
“Even when we are confused about someones gender, and dont have a greater awareness of what it means to be trans, we have a choice to respond with kindness rather than cruelty.”
“Some critics of trans people have told us that we shouldn’t feel this pain of being denied the legitimacy of our own selves; gender is, of course, just a social construct. I wonder if these people ...”
“Even when we are confused about someone’s gender, and don’t have a greater awareness of what it means to be trans, we have a choice to respond with kindness rather than cruelty.”
