Quotes by Jazz Jennings - Page 2

It means so much to me to see Caitlyn Jenner coming out, just by being her authentic self, staying true to who she is, and just living her life.
Jazz Jennings /
Authentic Self
Staying
Life Me True
Life Me Living
Authentic
Just Living
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I wouldn't change myself at all. Being transgender makes me who I am: a strong person, a confident person. Being transgender gives me my personality.
Jazz Jennings /
Strong
Transgender
Person
Being
Am
Change Myself Personality
Confident
Gives
Makes
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It's something you're born with, and you realize that you're trapped in the wrong body. It's not like one day you're like, 'I want to be transgender!'
Jazz Jennings /
Transgender
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In the morning when I wake up, I'll exfoliate. Then at night when I shower, I'll also use an exfoliating scrub. My routine is easy, and I just get clean skin.
Jazz Jennings /
Routine
Scrub
Shower
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I know, for me, when I was depressed, I didn't want to talk to my friends at all when I was depressed. If they tried to help me, I would kind of back away from them.
Jazz Jennings /
Depressed
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A lot of straight and transgender boys get in touch with me through my website and social media. They tell me I'm inspirational and beautiful. It boosts my self-esteem.
Jazz Jennings /
Inspirational
Boost
Self Esteem
Transgender
Website
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Having transgender characters leads to more visibility, which creates education. Education can hopefully lead to everyone treating our community with acceptance and love.
Jazz Jennings /
Acceptance
Our Community
Transgender
Visibility
Creates
Leads
Treating
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So many transgender people in the community are being covered with this umbrella of misconception that we are going to hurt someone. But we are not trying to hurt anyone.
Jazz Jennings /
Covered
Misconception
Transgender
Umbrella
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From the moment I could express myself, I acted like a stereotypical girl and insisted that I was a girl. I wasn't just a boy who liked girly things - I knew I was a girl.
Jazz Jennings /
Girly
Acted
Liked
Express
Insisted
Stereotypical
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A lot of insurance companies don't protect transgender people because they think it's medically unnecessary, but we deserve to be covered, and this is life-saving treatment.
Jazz Jennings /
Covered
Deserve
Insurance Companies
Life Saving
Protect
Transgender
Unnecessary
Companies
Insurance
Medically
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Seeing states like North Carolina enacting these bathroom bills that are banning transgender individuals from using the restrooms they identify as... it's complete discrimination.
Jazz Jennings /
Bathroom
Bills
Carolina
Discrimination
North Carolina
Transgender
Banning
Identify
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I think that's important - that transgender individuals are just like everyone else. We have our interests, our hobbies, our things we like to do. And people have to understand that.
Jazz Jennings /
Hobbies
Transgender
Everyone Else
People Important Everyone
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I want it to be that transgender is normal. Let us live our lives. Let us be happy. The world will be a better place when we have that freedom. I think I'm going to be alive to see it.
Jazz Jennings /
Alive
Better Place
Normal
Our Lives
Transgender
Be Happy
Let Us
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I wish everything was gender neutral. I wish we weren't separated by boundaries like pink and blue and little things like that. I wish we could choose how we express ourselves without hate.
Jazz Jennings /
Blue
Boundaries
Gender
Little Things
Wish
Neutral
Choose
Express
Pink
Separated
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I feel really honored to be part of The #seetherealme campaign. It's really amazing, as it helps many teen girls who are struggling. It helps them to find themselves and be true to who they are.
Jazz Jennings /
Teen
Honored
Be True
Struggling
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The more words I learned, the more I started to verbalize my feelings. Whenever my mom or dad would compliment me by saying something like 'Good boy,' I'd immediately correct them. 'No. Good girl.'
Jazz Jennings /
Compliment
Good Girl
Mom Good Dad
Boy
Good Mom Dad
Correct
Good Dad Mom
Immediately
Whenever
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Ever since I could form coherent thoughts, I knew I was a girl trapped inside a boy's body. There was never any confusion in my mind. The confusing part was why no one else could see what was wrong.
Jazz Jennings /
Confusing
Form
Trapped
Inside
Thoughts Mind Body
Boy
Coherent
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Being transgender is more than just medical books and everything, procedures. It's something spiritual in which you're finding yourself and really discovering who you are and learning to love yourself.
Jazz Jennings /
Medical
Discovering
Finding Yourself
Love Yourself
Procedures
Spiritual
Transgender
Finding
To Love
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Progress can't happen just from trans people being out in the open. Society also has to truly accept transgender individuals. If society is capable of treating us equally, then we can and will live authentically.
Jazz Jennings /
Society
Capable
Progress
Transgender
Progress People Will
Accept
Also
Open
Equally
Happen
Individuals
Open Society
Treating
Truly
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I think that a lot of people don't understand how much discrimination transgender people actually face. They think that we're just kind of saying it to put it out there and get sympathy, but that's not true at all.
Jazz Jennings /
Sympathy
Discrimination
Transgender
How Much
Just Kind
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Bathrooms have always been a big issue in my life. My parents fought for me to be able to enroll in elementary school as a girl, which I did. But I still would not be allowed to use the girls' room under any condition.
Jazz Jennings /
Elementary School
Life Me My Life
Life Always Me
Condition
Elementary
Enroll
Fought
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If someone says something hurtful to you or makes you feel down on yourself, then you just gotta stay positive and keep moving forward because they might not know much about you, or they may not understand the situation.
Jazz Jennings /
Positive
Hurtful
May
Might
Moving
Moving Forward
Situation
Yourself
Feel
Then
Understand
Stay
Down
Forward
Gotta
Makes
Says
Something
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'I Am Jazz' was more for children to understand what it means to be transgender, but with 'Being Jazz,' I wanted to get the universal message across that we are all just people, and we have to live our lives authentically.
Jazz Jennings /
Transgender
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I was never a boy. I always was a girl in my heart, and although I was presented as a boy to the public, inside I was feminine. It was OK to be that because that's just who I was, and I can't change that. I was born that way.
Jazz Jennings /
Feminine
Although
Presented
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For me, Caitlyn Jenner is such a huge role model. She's really making a difference in our society by just being brave and sharing her story. People say she's not brave and courageous, but to me, she is so brave and courageous.
Jazz Jennings /
Courageous
Making A Difference
Role Model
Sharing
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I always say I want to leave this world in a better state than when I arrived, and I continue to live by that message. So I'm going to do what I can to make the world a better place but also just make sure that I'm happy as well.
Jazz Jennings /
Better Place
Always World Better
World Better Live
To Live By
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I want to help transgender individuals who might be struggling realize that they have to love themselves and stay true to who they are because if they keep moving forward, and keep a positive attitude, then things will get better.
Jazz Jennings /
Positive
Attitude
Might
Moving
Moving Forward
Positive Attitude
Stay True
Transgender
Attitude Positive Love
True
Stay
Forward
Help
Individuals
Realize
Struggling
Themselves
To Love
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I know that one day all transgender individuals will have the freedom to be who they are, no matter what. And we won't have to face the cruel judgments of society. We can just live our lives and be treated and respected like everyone else.
Jazz Jennings /
Transgender
Cruel
Everyone Else
Judgments
Respected
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There are so many trans kids who are struggling with who they are. I want them to know that one day, they will find the light. No matter what, we have to be who we are. Once you love and accept yourself, then others will slowly do so as well.
Jazz Jennings /
Light
One Day
Accept
Love Yourself Day
Slowly
Struggling
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As a transgender child, I was always looking around for someone like me, because I thought I was the only one. It's hard to feel like that. But having support from my family changed everything. They helped me love myself and embrace who I am.
Jazz Jennings /
Family
Changed
Embrace
Support
Transgender
Love Myself Always
Love Family Myself
Child
Having
Helped
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If you don't have the love and support of your family, you need to find someone out there who you can confide in and share your concerns and worries with. And someone who can lift your spirits and make you feel valuable and strong and powerful.
Jazz Jennings /
Family
Powerful
Share
Strong
Support
Valuable
Love Your Feel
Love Family Your
Love Family Support
Find
Concerns
Confide
Lift
Spirits
Worries
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I'm the youngest of four siblings and the baby of the family. My family just treated me like anyone else growing up. They taught me that everyone has a special and unique trait about them, and that mine is that I have a girl brain and a boy body.
Jazz Jennings /
Sibling
Anyone Else
Trait
Youngest
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A lot of people - boys - look at me differently. They think that if they date me, they are gay because they are dating another boy. In instances like this, I feel almost excluded, if that's the right word. I feel like I'm being put on a different shelf.
Jazz Jennings /
Dating
Excluded
Date
Right Word
Shelf
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Acceptance is so important because we cannot go through this journey alone. I am fortunate to have a very supportive family, but not all trans kids are so lucky. I recommend seeking out a friend or an adult who you think will accept you and telling them how you feel.
Jazz Jennings /
Acceptance
Seeking
Supportive
Recommend
We Cannot
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With my own videos, I definitely have more control over what I want to put out there and what I want to say. With the TV show, I'm not the editor. There's always things that I wanted to put in there. My dad has the final say in everything on YouTube, but I can be more expressive.
Jazz Jennings /
Expressive
Youtube
Editor
Tv Show
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I definitely feel that society sets expectations for transgender people to fit in and makes us feel as if we have to dress a certain way so that we blend in with everyone else. But I believe all transgender individuals should be able to wear whatever they want and not worry about fitting in.
Jazz Jennings /
Fitting
Transgender
Blend
Certain Way
Everyone Else
Fitting In
Sets
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Bras should be comfortable. I hate when you have all those bras with all that wiring that poke into your ribs, and you take it off at the end of the day, and it feels good. It shouldn't feel good to take off your bra at the end of the day. It should be something that feels good throughout the day.
Jazz Jennings /
Bras
Feel Good
Poke
Ribs
Wiring
Bra
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As I got older, I learned about how some people treated their transgender children, and I was shocked. I couldn't understand how someone would leave their child and throw them on the street. I was always taught you give your kid unconditional love and if you don't, something's wrong with you, for real.
Jazz Jennings /
Unconditional Love
Shocked
Taught
Transgender
Unconditional
Leave
Love Children People
Street
Older
Learned
Some People
Throw
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I definitely think when I'm feeling super down or having tantrums or not able to participate in any activities, I have to control myself. I have to tell myself, 'No, focus, focus, focus, do this, do this, do this.' Instead of shutting down, I encourage myself to think positively and move towards the light.
Jazz Jennings /
Positively
Tantrums
Activities
Participate
Shutting
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On every single picture on my Instagram page, you'll find a negative comment. My supporters will normally stand up to that hateful person, and then it will become a big argument, and it's just a lot. I try to tell myself not to listen to the haters, and I try not to read the comments because it's not worth it.
Jazz Jennings /
Comment
Hateful
Instagram
Negative
Not Worth It
Worth It
Picture
Normally
Page
Stand Up
Supporters
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Often, when a girl has a crush on a boy, her friend will dare her to speak to him or ask for a pencil, or better yet, let him know that she has a crush. Pretty risky stuff... It happens thousands of times a day in the lives of teenagers everywhere. Putting yourself out there. Daring to expose your true feelings.
Jazz Jennings /
Girl
Crush
Dare
Speak
Stuff
Ask
Everywhere
Yourself Your Better
Boy
Pretty
True
Friend
Better Yourself Your
Often
Times
Expose
Yourself Day Better
Her
Him
Pencil
Putting
Risky
She
Teenagers
Thousands
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