“With trans folks, we have a lot of people accusing us of just playing ...” — Nicole Maines Quote

“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.”

“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.'”

“Everybody loves superheroes, and so to be associated with a superhero forever is just kind of like, that's where the goalposts are. That's kind of, 'Bam, you're immortalized!'”

“I would say my brother got lucky with me. Because we grew up with only boy neighbors, I developed a liking to shoot-'em-up and military video games. I could have come out a lot girlier.”

“Separate but equal does not work.”

“It's good to have a free space to laugh and cry and get angry about gender and sexuality. That's one of the things I am the most thankful for from my friends and my family. They've given me the place to freely have gender be a part of our discourse.”

“Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.”

“Our fighters would be nowhere if they didn't have the support coming from folks like those that served with me.”

“It's really important that folks be able to speak out.”

“My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.”

“It's weird when you stop being a person to a lot of folks and just become a weird talking point. It's like you become a meme, and you're not a person anymore, and people don't mind stealing your life.”

“Obamacare can't work, folks. It just cannot.”