The nature of being raised in the way that I was, it's like, you get told you will be the future leaders of the world and then you get there and you … - Abigail Thorn

Since the position of the transphobe is that trans people don’t really exist, as trans people, and the position of trans people is obviously that they do exist, immediately we can see that no compromise is possible. Things either exist or they don’t, there’s no middle ground. So in any debate on this issue, it’s gonna be winner takes all. The trans person then is in the impossible situation of having to prove their own existence to someone who’s every response is gonna be, “How do you know?”

Masculinity is a subject about which I know more than I should, but less than some of you may think. I studied it for a number of years but I never quite had the natural talent.

I look inside myself and I ask, "Do I feel like a man or a woman?" And the answer is... I feel happy.