"Gender is between your ears and not between your legs."
"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."
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Source: The Reluctant Transgender Role Model. Interview with Cintra Wilson, www.nytimes.com. May 6, 2011.
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