C. N. Lester said this quote

We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we don’t see it reflected in history textbooks and in recent memory then it cannot have existed for long.

~ C. N. Lester

When we are surrounded by such diversity - in nature, in culture, in human spirit - how can we stand not to acknowledge it?

~ C. N. Lester

Some critics of trans people have told us that we shouldn’t feel this pain of being denied the legitimacy of our own selves; gender is, of course, just a social construct. I wonder if these people also tell widows not to bother grieving their husbands, because marriage is also just another social construct.

~ C. N. Lester

Trying to take away someone’s language is usually the first step in trying to change them.

~ C. N. Lester