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“I'll have men, or I'll have women say that I'll never be a woman because I don't menstruate, or because I'm not made up like Kim Kardashian. So in that sense, I use makeup for a little bit of confidence. But for the most part, day-to-day, I wear makeup if it feels good.”
“I want to inspire strength. I also want to inspire people to create their own happy reality.”
“Feeling comfortable with your body as you go through a transition is not easy, and honestly, as a trans person on hormones or after surgery, you just don't really know what your results will be, how you'll finally look. Managing all of that is a challenge.”
“For any model in this industry, you never know if you're going to get work. You never know if people are going to relate to you, and embrace you. And then being trans is kind of like - I hate to say it - but it's kind of like a setback.”
“Beauty is the idea of who you truly are.”
“The only way to combat hate is by demonstrating empathy and love.”
“I want to just be able to act and be like the girl next door or the cute babysitter or the busy mom who's fun or who knows, maybe something super dramatic, somebody who's really insecure and angry.”
“There's a lot of healing that needs to happen between the LGBT community and the cisgender heterosexual world. There's a ton of misunderstanding.”
“I don't want to reclaim the word 'tranny.' I don't want anyone to refer to me as 'tranny.'”
“I've always had a 'stand up for the people' type of personality.”
“I've learned that my word carries weight, and that's something I have to always have to keep in mind.”
“When I was a kid, I was really quiet.”
“I think that for a lot of people, I inspire them to be themselves.”
“Trans people are beautiful. It's a different kind of beauty, and it should be recognized and respected.”
“My message is: beauty has no gender. At the end of the day beauty is beauty.”
“Being in the entertainment industry, I do have some privileges, but when I'm off sets and in the real world, I'm a trans individual whose rights and safety have been taken away.”
“We cannot let fear and terror dictate how we live our lives, no matter what. Life is a blessing with an expiration date, and we must embrace it while we can.”
“Most Americans need to be told discrimination against trans people is against the law. Instead of looking at us as people, they look at us as not people. If there's a law that states this treatment is not allowed, I'd feel safer to function more confidently in society because I'd know I'm protected by the law in the country I pay taxes in.”
“If people can understand me and accept me as a woman, I'm going to get booked for more jobs.”
“I've been told that I can't do things simply because I was trans.”