Sex And Gender Quotes:

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

- Simone de Beauvoir

source: Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

topic: Age, Born, Male Privilege, Female Empowerment, Inspirational Strong Women

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.

- Judith Butler

topic: Sex, Character, Expression, Gender Identity, Sex And Gender

We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly and proudly...when our lives are suppressed, everyone is denied an understanding of the rich diversity of sex and gender expression and experience that exist in human society.

- Leslie Feinberg

source: Leslie Feinberg (1996). “Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman”, Beacon Press (MA)

topic: Sex, Expression, Order, Sex And Gender

I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders.

- Ezra Miller

topic: Sex, Different, Wonderful, Wonderful Friends, Sex And Gender

You can support trans-positive legislation, tranny artists, and the inclusion of trannies in your neighborhood, schools, place of worship, whatever. For the long term? Join or initiate some good legal battles against the puritanical laws that exist around sex and gender.

- Kate Bornstein

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Places Of Worship, Sex And Gender

Both bisexuality and transgender are fluid notions of identity, while lesbian and gay are fixed identities. Some people believe that means there should be two movements: LG and BT. But then what're ya gonna do about SM players? And intersexed folks who want their own I in the alphabet soup of sex and gender related politics?

- Kate Bornstein

source: "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

topic: Bisexuality, Sms, Alphabet Soup, Sex And Gender

When industry people see something different they don't know what to do with it, so filmmakers who make films about women, they kind of fall through the cracks. If a woman filmmaker makes film about war, they say "Okay, this is a war film, it has ninety percent men in it, we know what to do with it." But then it still gets attacked for not doing it properly. But even though it bothers me I don't want to dwell on the sex and gender thing.

- Signe Baumane

source: "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

topic: Sex, War, Fall, Sex And Gender