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John [the father] kept saying, "You have a penis. That means you__e a boy." One day, Shannon noticed that her son had been in the bathroom an awfully long time and pushed the door open. "He had a pair of my best, sharpest sewing scissors poised, ready to cut. Penis in the scissors. I said, 'What are you doing?' He said, 'This doesn__ belong here. So I__ going to cut it off.' I said, 'You can__ do that.' He said, 'Why not?' I said, 'Because if you ever want to have girl parts, they need that to make them.' I pulled that one right out of my ass. He handed me the scissors and said, 'Okay.

Griffin Hansbury, who was born female but underwent a sex change after graduating from college, has another well-informed view of the powers of testosterone. __he world just changes,_ he said. __he most overwhelming feeling was the incredible increase in libido and change in the way I perceived women._ Before the hormone treatments, Hansbury said, an attractive woman in the street would provoke an internal narrative: __he__ attractive. I__ like to meet her._ But after the injections, no more narrative. Any attractive quality in a woman, __ice ankles or something,_ was enough to __lood my mind with aggressive pornographic images, just one after another_Everything I looked at, everything I touched turned to sex._ He concluded, __ felt like a monster a lot of the time. It made me understand men. It made me understand adolescent boys a lot.

THIS IS WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING; HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MUSCULAR; HE DESERVES NOT TO BE PHOTOSHOPPED. HE IS HUMAN, AND HE HAS BLEMISHES. HERE HE STANDS, VISIBLE. HE SEES YOU ALL, COUNTLESS INVISIBLE OTHERS LIKE HIM. THIS BODY IS ACCEPTABLE _ PUBESCENT, AWKWARD, MARRED. YOU DON__ HAVE TO BE INVISIBLE. WE ARE ALL GOOD ENOUGH. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH OUR BODIES.

Anna's voice wasn't a beautiful voice - rough edged and sorrowful, a bit used, somehow male and female at once. Yet it had more vibrancy to it than most Danish voices, which were often thin and white and too pretty to trigger a shiver. Anna's voice had the heat of the south; it warmed Einar, as if her throat were red with coals.

When we are surrounded by such diversity - in nature, in culture, in human spirit - how can we stand not to acknowledge it?

We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we don__ see it reflected in history textbooks and in recent memory then it cannot have existed for long.

You can change a body, but you can't change a soul. The heart wants what it wants.

If there's one thing I know about women, it's that they have vaginas.

In 1969 America put the man on the moon.In 2016 America put the man in the women's bathroom.

If you voted for a man who said "Grab em by the pussy," you have zero room to claim to protect anyone in bathrooms.

Most people who are would each not be in love with their partner, if they did not have the kind of genitals they have.

She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free...

Kelly took a deep breath. "And I'm sorry I ignored you last week." She scratched her neck. "And you know what? If you think you're a girl..."George braced for Kelly's next words."Then I think you're a girl too!

People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most.

Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.

Because I am, just as you are you. We don__ always get to pick who we are, Shelly Wynn, but we can choose to celebrate it.

Caitlyn Jenner is not brave nor a hero

Being creatures means that we cannot re-create ourselves in any fashion or form that we desire by a simple act of the will or the complex work of a surgeon. When we as creatures reject the Creator's blueprint, we are both rebelling against the natural order of how things objectively are, and (thought it may not seem like it) we are rejecting the life that is going to be the highest good for us.