Healthcare for trans women is a necessity. It is not elective. It is not cosmetic. It is life saving.

It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.

We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay.

If you have a problem with people living their lives and being authentically who they are, you really should go and do some soul-searching.

We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.

By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better.

There are lessons in everything. The bad, the good. Our job is to listen, and to continue to learn, so that maybe we get better at this. Maybe get better at life.

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened.

I believe that when we love someone, we respect them, and we listen to them; we feel that their voice matters. And- we let them dictate the terms of who they are and what their story is.

Whether you're transgender or not, most of us get to a point in our lives where we can no longer lie to ourselves.

When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

Innocence is the ability to see things for what they are.

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

Storing your car in New York is safer than entering it in a demolition derby. But not much.

This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!

Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all.

We must find a way to replace yearning for what life has withheld from us with gratitude for what we have been given.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

To me, America is a symbol of all different views, different types of people coming together.