“Kids and just young people in general are usually a lot more, I guess,...” — Nicole Maines Quote

“Kids and just young people in general are usually a lot more, I guess, open-minded to change. Especially when you're really little in elementary school, you don't expect a lot of things from people, so if somebody says, 'I'm switching genders,' you're just sort of like, 'OK, that's new. But cool.'”

“With trans folks, we have a lot of people accusing us of just playing dress up for whatever reasons, and that's just not true.”

“What I'm really excited for is to see the evolution of trans characters and see more diverse stories be told, so that every time we're on screen, we're not really playing the part of educator and having to explain the experience to the audience, because it will have already been normalized.”

“I know from first-hand experience that separating transgender students from their peers can cause many to leave school, hide who they are, or even do the unthinkable.”

“If I had a super power, I'd want to be able to fly just so I could float around my apartment. Or I'd really like telekinesis because then you'd be able to slam the door on somebody.”

“Every teacher in elementary school loved me because I was always goofing around. I was taller than most of the guys and girls, and fattest, too.”

“I went to seven different elementary schools.”

“I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.”

“When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.”

“I used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.”

“Wherever I go - like, I go to elementary schools, I go to middle schools - wherever it is, if it's in Florida, if it's up in New England, I just feel like wherever I am, the kids always go crazy whenever they see me.”