Rain Dove

“I'm constantly told in the industry that I don't look like a woman, so therefore, I can't be put in editorials and campaigns because people wouldn't get it.”

“I want people to realize that they aren't their bodies. They are something more than their bodies.”

“When someone thinks of the term, 'pretty girl,' they don't typically think of someone who looks like me.”

“I have nothing against the Victoria's Secret Angels. They're all beautiful people, and I respect where they are at.”

“I'm a proud woman. I'm a proud man. I'm a proud whatever people think I am.”

“I look like what we have taught society a lesbian looks like. I just do. I have the short hair. I got the muscles.”

“I used to feel guilty about having nice things, because there was so much good I could be doing with that money. I always tell people that, if you can afford what I'm wearing, then you can afford to make a difference. But fashion has taught me that it's not a bad thing to love yourself and take care of yourself.”

“Gender doesn't exist in my book.”

“When I'm a gender capitalist in the fashion world, I basically can go to any casting that I want to as long as somebody likes my face.”

“Being an androgynous model is one thing, but a lot of what we're up against is the way we stand for certain values, such as our sexualities, or if people with our look are common enough to be part of the consumer market.”

“Modeling is also the first job I've ever had where it's my job to love myself. While many people think that modeling would chip away at your self-esteem, it's actually bolstered mine tenfold.”

“Confrontation makes me nervous.”

“I believe that everyone who is human is androgynous, but I don't think there are a lot of people that are presented as truly androgynous.”

“I think the fashion industry is limitless. Not everyone sees me as being part of their vision. But the people that have seen me, some of them have seen things in me that I hadn't even seen in myself.”

“When a lot of people wake up in the morning and put on their underwear, the first thing they feel that day is terrible about themselves. When you see that your body is not what other people want, it can be really devastating. I have so many friends that I grew up with who have had serious eating disorders.”

“I ended up in Colorado working in wilderness fire prevention. My job was to run around with a chainsaw and cut down trees during a blaze. It was really fun. When I first got out there, that's when I realized how passable of a male I could be.”

“When I first started out modelling, I was binding my chest at gigs to make sure my physique was able to be 'passable' as male. But now, I never bind. It's highly unsafe and unhealthy.”

“I find when I'm perceived as male in society, there is an enormous amount of pressure, but it comes with respect, so it's a balance.”

“I see the wielding of a pronoun as something that can be freeing for some members of society but a shackle to others like myself.”

“The Olympics represent a global standard - for men, for women, for athletics.”