Gender Reassignment Quotes & Sayings

Besides a fascinating story, the John/Joan/David Reimer case highlights several issues of prime importance about sex and gender that can be applied to questions surrounding sexual orientation. First, the body of evidence collected over several decades from adults who underwent unnecessary and wrong gender assignment and sex reassignment surgeries teaches us that trying to match gender to genitals should not be a standard. Gender and genitals do not necessarily align. Gender is an innate trait established within the fetal brain. Furthermore, the attempt to change what is natural and inborn in a person has devastating effects on lives. — Kathy Baldock

Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass ninja assassin. — Chuck Palahniuk

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother — Germaine Greer

There's something you should probably know." "Please don't tell me you had gender reassignment surgery. I don't think I can manage that today. — Helena Hunting

While railing against the manufactured prerequisites of womanhood or manhood, we need to avoid manufacturing our own prerequisites. The non-operative journey and the objection to it illustrate just one area in which we need to open our thinking to other journeys while expecting that others respect our own. - Mercedes Allen — Kate Bornstein

Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that. — Jess Row