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No one knows my gender more than I do. You do not know my gender better than I do. A doctor doesn't know it better than I do. My parents don't know it better than I do. No one experiences my gender in the way that I experience it.

~Chelsea Manning

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Gender presentation should reflect the person that you are. When you lose control of your gender presentation, you lose an important aspect of your identity and existence.

~Chelsea Manning

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Unfortunately, it seems to me that when it comes to issues affecting the trans community, most people who are cisgender - a word describing those people whose gender identity is in alignment with the sex they were assigned at birth - focus too much on the administrative, legal, and medical aspects of trans identity.

~Chelsea Manning

Topics: Administrative Affecting Alignment Aspects Assigned Birth Community Describing Focus Gender Identity Issues Legal Me Medical Most Much People Seems Sex Those Too Too Much Unfortunately Were Who Whose Word

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By December 2009, I had come to terms with my gender identity just as I was deployed to Iraq.

~Chelsea Manning

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Presenting myself and my gender is about my right to exist.

~Chelsea Manning

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Some people ask, 'Why the word 'feminist'? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?' Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general - but to choose to use the vague expression 'human rights' is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Ask Because Believer Choose Course Deny Dishonest Expression Feminism Feminist Gender General Human Human Rights Just Like Part Particular People Problem Rights Say Some Some People Something Specific Use Vague Why Why Not Word Would You

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Because gender can be uncomfortable, there are easy ways to close this conversation. Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: About Always Because Both Both Men And Women Changing Conversation Dismiss Easy Even Gender Makes Men Men And Women People Problems Quick Quo Resistant Sometimes Status Status Quo Talk Thinking Uncomfortable Women Women Are

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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

~Chinua Achebe

Topics: Citizens Country Different Ethnicity Fair Gender Needs People Whether

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