Gender Dysphoria Quotes

“People lose their jobs over this sort of thing. They lose their friends. Their families. They lose everything.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Trans-Sister Radio

“You are bisexual? I am bye-bye!”
― Steven Magee

“The sex ratio of those being referred had shifted dramatically too. The number of girls (known at that time at GIDS as ‘natal females’, now ‘birth-assigned females’) seeking help had equalled the number of boys for the first time in 2011. Previously, GIDS’s caseload had been nearly three-quarters male for those referred in childhood, or two-thirds overall. At first, this change was understood to be positive – a sort of balancing-out – and attributed to the fact that the girls were perhaps being better supported to seek help. But by 2015 it was clear that, in fact, something bigger was happening. There had been a complete reversal. Referrals for natal girls made up 65 percent of the total. In 2019/20 girls outnumbered boys by a ratio of six to one in some age groups, most markedly between the ages of 12 and 14 … Moreover, the majority were girls whose gender-related distress had begun after the onset of puberty, during adolescence. They didn’t have a history of childhood dysphoria.”
― Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

“Self-diagnosed adolescent trans boys – natal females – started to fill up GIDS’s waiting room with similar stories, haircuts, even names – ‘one after another after another’. They’d talk about their favourite trans YouTubers, many having adopted the same name, and how they aspired to be like them in the future. Given how complicated these young people appeared to be, could something else be going on that explained this, something other than them all being trans?”
― Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

“Clinicians like Anna Hutchinson and Melissa Midgen have posited that ‘there are multiple, interweaving factors bearing down on girls and young women’ that help explain why so many are experiencing gender-related distress. They say they have witnessed a ‘toxic collision of factors: a world telling these children they are “wrong”; they are not doing girlhood (or boyhood) correctly’, girls struggling with their emerging sexuality, and girls who ‘struggle in puberty because it is uncomfortable, weird and unpredictable (particularly heightened if they happen to be on the autistic spectrum)’.”
― Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

“You can never tell who is gay if they are ‘in the closet’.”
― Steven Magee

“There are some really messed up people out there on the dating scene.”
― Steven Magee

“My ex never told me about her gender confusion until after we broke up, I was mystified as to why the relationship was failing!”
― Steven Magee

“Gender issues are fundamentally a developmental problem that has its roots in pollution. It is seen constantly near polluted rivers and in animals and aquatic life that use the water.”
― Steven Magee

“My ex was super confused and really upset when she started to change gender!”
― Steven Magee

“My ex now lives with a woman!”
― Steven Magee

“People have been changing gender throughout history, just not at the very high levels we see today.”
― Steven Magee

“People have been changing gender throughout history and it has peaked in this generation of ‘modern’ humans.”
― Steven Magee

“Biology creates males and females. Pollution creates gender issues in them.”
― Steven Magee

“For many gays, it is not such a rosy rainbow.”
― Steven Magee

“I thought it was really weird when my girlfriend broke up with me because she was changing gender! I later realized she was working a toxic job.”
― Steven Magee

“Gender issues are an illness of the hormonal system.”
― Steven Magee

“Let’s switch clothes! I can be the bearded lady and you can be the big breasted man.”
― Steven Magee

“Am I the only one that worries about the nation filling up with gender challenged people?”
― Steven Magee

“When I look at the US now, I am devastated and angry that we live in a country that supports the narrative that it is okay to medicalize young girls and women by prescribing testosterone and performing mastectomies as a first response to the girls’ gender confusion, stress, or mental health concerns.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“I hope to see those who participate in the gender affirming care model switch to engaging in the examination of deeper issues and the exploration of other treatment options beyond immediate transition when gender confusion presents itself. Young people may need support with counseling to understand and heal from the root cause of their feelings and experiences of dysphoria.”
― Lisa Shultz

“Something is terribly wrong when natural and holistic measures to relieve emotional struggles are left untouched in favor of lifelong, irreversible medical interventions that are experimental, expensive, and come with a host of additional adverse effects.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“Gender critical is not 'anti-trans', or 'transphobic', in the same way that psychiatry is not 'anti-mental illness'.”
― Az Hakeem, DETRANS: When transition is not the solution

“Perhaps if I have sex enough I´ll convince myself I enjoy it?" (Regarding not being able to have penetrative intercourse)”
― Elliot Page, Pageboy

“I have been doomed to be a girl who must pass her earthly existence in a male body. How dreadful it is to a young woman to have a slight growth of hair on lip or cheeks ! Only one mark of the male ! How much more dreadful for a young woman to possess almost all the male anatomy as I do ! How I have bewailed my fate!”
― Jennie June, Autobiography of an Androgyne

“Did society ever compel any other woman, except those like me, to live, eat, sleep, frequent the same comfort-rooms and baths, lie sometimes in the same bed, with men, and sometimes to listen to the unclean talk of men?”
― Jennie June, Autobiography of an Androgyne

“I am a woman entombed in the body of a man.”
― Jennie June, Autobiography of an Androgyne

“I trust that the publication of my life story will contribute to a correct estimate of androgvnism on the part of scientists, the molders of public opinion, and the lawmakers, and to a more kindly treatment by society of those born with this curse. It is only expressing half the truth to say that they are more to be pitied than scorned. They are wholly to be pitied.”
― Jennie June, Autobiography of an Androgyne

“I knew that I would never in any book find anything about people who were like me...... no poet had yet written about such a being, because it had never occurred to any poet that it could exist.”
― Lili Elbe, Man into Woman: The First Sex Change

“All other women were allowed to be ugly, to be hideous, to have all kinds of defects and flaws in their appearance. But I had to be pretty; if I did not look good, I had lost any right to exist, to be a woman ......”
― Lili Elbe, Man into Woman: The First Sex Change