When people have points of reference that are humanizing, that demystifies difference.

Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and everyone of us to interrogate how we might be an oppressor and how we might be able to become liberators for ourselves and for each other.

Believing that you are unworthy of love and belonging or that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong, is deadly.

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.

I was assigned male at birth, is the way I like to put it, because I think... we're born who we are... and the gender thing is something someone imposes on you. And so, I was assigned male at birth, but I always felt like I was a girl.