Chaz Bono

"Gender is between your ears and not between your legs."

- Chaz Bono

"There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate."

- Chaz Bono

"We are all a mosaic of possibility, made up of both light and shadow."

- Chaz Bono

"I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body."

- Chaz Bono

"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."

- Chaz Bono

"A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family."

- Chaz Bono

"Fears are not facts."

- Chaz Bono

"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?"

- Chaz Bono

"For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that."

- Chaz Bono