Any kind of gender expression is performance for me, regardless of where it is on the spectrum.

I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years.

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses.

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.

Sexuality is who you want to be with. Gender identity is who you want to be in the world.

My characters have never waged a war against any gender. They are all about friendship and being loyal to your friends.

I always supported gay issues, but I never understood transgender issues. But after I heard Bruce Jenner speak so honestly, so sincerely, and so relatably, I totally got it. I totally understood what he was saying - it was so compelling.

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

The soul has no gender.

I suppose it's easier for most writers to create and vivify characters of their own gender.

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

I think growing up, the assimilation of most cultural conventions typically encouraged by a heightened awareness of gender and sex encourages a sort of separation of the self. What's so special about 'Hanna' is that her upbringing has negated this indoctrination; she's almost absolved of the pressures of gender or gender itself.

The transgender bathroom thing - it's just so obvious that people are scared of what they don't understand. It's like, 'I don't want to deal with the fact that some people might have been born in the wrong body.'

I don't want the same trans story to be told over and over again. I don't want people to get stuck on this very western idea of what it means to be transgender.

I always say I never felt 'latched' to a gender. I just kind of always felt like myself, and I never felt like I had to do certain things or be a certain way to fit into a certain mold.

I tend to gravitate toward gender- and race-related stories.

Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.

Being transgender has completely turned boys off from liking me.

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

It's almost comical how un-liberal liberal Hollywood is when it comes to fighting gender and racial bias.