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Danh ngôn của Janet Mock (Sứ mệnh: 2)

I would advise any 17-year-old to surround yourself with people who listen to you, nod when you speak, and smile when you enter spaces.
My parents split before my fifth birthday, and I moved with Mom and my three siblings to her native Oahu.
There's power in naming yourself, in proclaiming to the world that this is who you are. Wielding this power is often a difficult step for many transgender people because it's also a very visible one.
Being trans, I've grown up with the understanding that most women are born girls, yet some are born boys. And most men are born boys, yet some are born girls. And if you're ready for this, some people are born girls or boys and choose to identify outside our society's binary system, making them genderqueer.
Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces our reality.
Reproductive rights are about body and medical autonomy: our collective and deeply personal right to choose what we want to do to/with our bodies. Trans people and feminists should be building natural alliances here.