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When I was a kid, I was really quiet.
My family is very supportive, lucky for me.
Loyalty is my favorite quality in a 'bestie.'
I see the human body as your soul's apartment.
I wasn't a masculine kid; I was pretty effeminate.
I want to be a successful trans woman burlesque performer.
I want to make 'People' magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People.
My life isn't really that different from a biological female.
I've always had a 'stand up for the people' type of personality.
Before my transition I felt trapped, and now I've been set free.
The only way to combat hate is by demonstrating empathy and love.
I think that for a lot of people, I inspire them to be themselves.
My favorite hip hop album would be the 'Miseducation of Lauren Hill.'
Being a voice for my community is something that I don't take lightly.
My message is: beauty has no gender. At the end of the day beauty is beauty.
I like to jump around, and it takes a long time for people to catch up to me sometimes.
I don't want to reclaim the word 'tranny.' I don't want anyone to refer to me as 'tranny.'
I want to inspire strength. I also want to inspire people to create their own happy reality.
I don't know any lingerie brands that really embrace transgender women at all, to be honest.
If people can understand me and accept me as a woman, I'm going to get booked for more jobs.
Luckily for me the public have known me before my transition and I've always had the same body type.
I've learned that my word carries weight, and that's something I have to always have to keep in mind.
I consider myself an activist for women like me, who want to be confident and don't want to be judged.
Drag has always been an open space where anyone within the LGBT community can express their creativity.
Trans people are beautiful. It's a different kind of beauty, and it should be recognized and respected.
I'm not Laverne Cox. I'm not Janet Mock... I'm just a girl from New Jersey who has experience and lived.
We must learn to exist together in peace and love people as they are. That is the only way humanity wins.
Trans women are a part of the female population and I think that they deserve a respectful representation.
When it comes to beauty, I try to teach my step daughters to embrace themselves the way they are,and to have fun.
Regardless of whether you're in a gay or heterosexual relationship, you're going to go through your ups and downs.
For me, I've tried to always live in the moment and I don't think that much about what is law, what is written down.
Beauty is the ability to utilize the tools provided in order to showcase your spirit in order to show your true soul.
It just so happens that I'm trans. It shouldn't have to be like 'Oh, that's the trans model selling the trans clothes.'
Honestly, when I was a boy and I was out as a gay boy, I never really dealt with anyone bullying me or anything like that.
I'm very passionate and believe that every time the LGBT community is featured in the media, people are learning about us.
It would be pretty amazing for Victoria's Secret to be that huge corporation that embraces trans women. We shop there as well.
Stepping into the gym or going out to do sports is a scary thing for a trans person - you feel like everyone is looking at you.
For a long time trans people have always been a joke. Our reputation has always been the bottom of the barrel and it's not fair.
I would hope that one day there will be a time when it's not so much about transgender, it's just people will just see us as women.
Everyone else is following these male and female tracks that have already been set for them, but when you're trans there is no trail.
Respectable transwomen were not as visible and very unclear in how they defined themselves. I had no one to look up to, pre-transition.
When you live this trans experience, there's a point and time in your life that you almost stop developing because you don't know where to go.
I want to be able to supply the knowledge that transgender women need in order to live peacefully and become accepted among all men and women.
I don't view myself as a 'trans actor' or a 'trans model.' I mean, I am - it's part of who I am - but it's not something that solely defines me.
There's a lot of healing that needs to happen between the LGBT community and the cisgender heterosexual world. There's a ton of misunderstanding.
And I come from a very proud Hispanic family. We're proud to be Latino. We're proud to be Peruvian. And my dad's side is proud to be Puerto Rican.
Drag Race' was when I was kind of confused about how I wanted to live the rest of my life and I was just having fun, a little ignorant, a little young.
We cannot let fear and terror dictate how we live our lives, no matter what. Life is a blessing with an expiration date, and we must embrace it while we can.
Growing up, I didn't really watch the Victoria's Secret fashion show too much. I really just saw folks who weren't real to me, so it didn't really interest me.
I don't need to rely on my concealer to have a sense of myself. I should be able to go out without my concealer, without my makeup, and still be able to be joyful.