"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