I am not covering stories as a transgender reporter. I'm a reporter who is transgender. Otherwise, it would be like having a black reporter only cover stories about blacks or a Hispanic reporter covering stories about Hispanics.

I had the idea that I'm going to make a trans-genre film about a transgender woman.

For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.

During my sophomore year at American University, I was elected president of the student body. At the same time, I was struggling with my identity and whether or not to come out as transgender.

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!'

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.

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.

I think being a teenager is a difficult journey in and of itself, but being transgender makes it that much harder.

2014 was a good year for transgender rights.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

Whenever you tell a group of people that they can't use bathrooms, or they can't access spaces that other people use, that is dehumanizing. It is discriminatory, and it reinforces the stigma and the prejudices that the transgender community already faces.

It was easier to forget, or be dismissive about, transgender issues when there weren't transgender staffers or interns walking the halls of the White House.

Days after being sworn in as the nation's top law enforcement officer, Trump's attorney general, the virulently anti-LGBTQ Jeff Sessions, revoked lifesaving guidance promoting the protection and dignity of transgender students.

There are so few books for little kids that actually mention the word transgender and explain what it is in simple terms.

Transgender doesn't need to imply loud.

I don't think we should be discriminating against anyone. Transgender people are people and deserve the best we can do for them.

I don't even think Trump knows what transgender means. He probably thinks transgender people are those cars that turn into robots.

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.

I strongly support the rights of transgender individuals. I will not denigrate or deny their struggles.

I want to make sure that people understand that, behind this national conversation around transgender rights, there are real people who hurt when they're mocked, who hurt when they're discriminated against, and who just want to be treated with dignity and respect.