“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?”
"Gender is between your ears and not between your legs."
- Chaz Bono
Awareness
"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
Awareness
"We are all a mosaic of possibility, made up of both light and shadow."
- Chaz Bono
Self-awareness
"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
Adversity
"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
Determination
"Do one thing every day that scares you."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Facing Fears
"Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think."
- Olivia Newton John
Facing Fears
"Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort."
- Peter McWilliams
Facing Fears
"Limits, like fear, is often an illusion."
- Michael Jordan
Facing Fears
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one."
- Elbert Hubbard
Facing Fears