Top 34 Quotes by Chaz Bono

When you transition, everyone kind of has to transition around you.

Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But I'm an activist - that's just the kind of person I am.

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?

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more focused on the 'T' now than I was on the 'L' or the 'G.'

I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to.

It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.