Top 40 Nicole Maines Quotes

This entire issue of transgender people posing a kind of threat to cisgender women in bathrooms is made up. We are just like everybody else – we go into the bathroom, we keep our heads down, we don’t look at anybody.

Gender is a spectrum, and that’s something that a lot of folks don’t understand.

It’s OK not to understand the whole trans thing. That’s alright. My dad didn’t understand it. I still don’t know everything. What’s important is you sort of educate yourself on your own time, but you have to respect it on everyone else‘s time. Because no one should have to wait for equality.

I know from first-hand experience that separating transgender students from their peers can cause many to leave school, hide who they are, or even do the unthinkable.

Acceptance at home is fundamental, yes, but frankly, it’s just not enough. Trans youth, like most young people, spend the majority of their time at school. If you spent Monday to Friday from 8 to 3 being told that you weren’t okay, that you were wrong, how are you meant to think otherwise?

I would say my brother got lucky with me. Because we grew up with only boy neighbors, I developed a liking to shoot-’em-up and military video games. I could have come out a lot girlier.

I’m so glad that all the work that my family and I are doing is yielding positive results and making actual change!

It seems only fitting that we have a trans superhero for trans kids to look up to. I wish there was a trans superhero when I was little.

I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we’ve said it exists does not really exist in nature.

When we have trans actors play trans characters, people can look onscreen and say, ‘OK, this is what trans is.’

Family has been really important to me.

At some point, I want to create a family and help them on their journey like my family helped me on mine.

I knew that I was trans when I was three years old. Well, I didn’t know ‘trans’ because I didn’t know there was a word for it, but I just knew that in my head and my heart that I was supposed to be a girl.

The first thing that’s really important to understand, just when approaching the topic of transgender people, is that the sex you’re assigned with at birth is not the same as your gender identity.

I studied digital arts and graphic design, and then, at the same time I was studying, I was still doing auditions.

I think it is necessary to educate folks on trans issues and to make them aware of trans identities and normalise it, because it is normal. But when you’re shielded from something, and it’s actively censored, it takes a negative connotation.

Historically, we have seen cis men play trans women and vice versa. That casting breaks through the fourth wall, and it gives people the message that trans people are being played by cis men in real life, which is where we get this idea of men in dresses.

Everybody loves superheroes, and so to be associated with a superhero forever is just kind of like, that’s where the goalposts are. That’s kind of, ‘Bam, you’re immortalized!’

I think, for all trans people, it’s not our only defining feature, but it is a defining feature.

Cisgender actors don’t take trans roles out of malice. I think it’s just failure to realize the context behind having cisgender people play transgender characters because we don’t see the same issue with sexuality.

With trans folks, we have a lot of people accusing us of just playing dress up for whatever reasons, and that’s just not true.

It’s good to have a free space to laugh and cry and get angry about gender and sexuality. That’s one of the things I am the most thankful for from my friends and my family. They’ve given me the place to freely have gender be a part of our discourse.

Gender is something that occurs in the mind, and sex is something that occurs, you know, everywhere else on the body. And whether or not those two things happen to align – well, if they do, great. If they don’t, also great.

Children are a lot smarter than we give them credit for.

Growing up, I was from kind of Nowhere, Maine. And, so, now having thousands of people reaching out to me via social media and thousands of people paying attention to what I say, that’s really weird.

We tried our best to work with the school and with the other families in the school system, and we did a gradual transition. I started transitioning when I was in first grade, and every year we kind of tacked a new thing on to it.

I had been on puberty suppressants and hormone suppressants, so I did not go through male puberty.

Kids and just young people in general are usually a lot more, I guess, open-minded to change. Especially when you’re really little in elementary school, you don’t expect a lot of things from people, so if somebody says, ‘I’m switching genders,’ you’re just sort of like, ‘OK, that’s new. But cool.’

Because you never know when a transgender person is going to come into your life, you need to be prepared, and you need to be ready to help them.

When we have a trans woman playing a trans woman, then you see, ‘Oh wait, this is what trans really is. This is what it looks like: a person.’ That sends a message to trans kids that they are valid in their identities that they are allowed to exist.

What I’m really excited for is to see the evolution of trans characters and see more diverse stories be told, so that every time we’re on screen, we’re not really playing the part of educator and having to explain the experience to the audience, because it will have already been normalized.

If I had a super power, I’d want to be able to fly just so I could float around my apartment. Or I’d really like telekinesis because then you’d be able to slam the door on somebody.

We can be whoever we want. We can do whatever we want. We can be superheroes, because in many ways we are. We’ve had trans representation in television for a while, but it hasn’t been the right representation.

My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.

I am transgender. I knew that I was for as long as I can remember.

I always loved theater, growing up, and I was always like, ‘Wow, it would be so fun to be an actor.’ But my next thought was, like, ‘I’m from Nowhere, Maine.’ You know, no one’s from Maine!

When I was first trying to explain to my parents that I was really a girl, my father didn’t know what to do. He had these preconceived notions about what his family was going to be like, and when I didn’t fit into those notions, he just ignored what I was trying to tell them before he really came around.

My father grew up very conservative, and he really had set expectations for what boys and girls were supposed to be like. So when I came out to him, that did not fit into his plan of what raising twin boys was going to be like.

My family knew that they loved me, and whatever this ‘I want to be a girl’ business was, it certainly wasn’t about to change that.

I did a guest episode of ‘Royal Pains,’ and then right after that, ‘Supergirl’ happened, and I was like, ‘How did I get here?’ Every day, I walk on set, and I’m waiting for someone to be like, ‘Ma’am, you can’t be here.’