Sources for author quotes

These are the sources for the quotes that show on the transition screens after the player runs out of hearts. None of these authors were either involved in or endorsed this game.

• Particularly, what’s “transgressive” [makes air quotes with their fingers] about my books is that people exist. Trans people exist. People like me and not like me exist. - Alex Gino (source)
• It’s very hard to hear people say, ‘This book is not appropriate to young people,’ when it’s like, I was a young person for whom this book would have been not only appropriate, but so, so necessary. - Maia Kobabr (source)
• So I just want to say a huge thank you to all the librarians and educators who are defend ending freedom of speech and the right for young LGBTQ+ people to see themselves in books. Stand strong in full solidarity. - Juno Dawson (source)
• Kids love stories where everyone belongs, and no one is excluded. That kind of world feels natural to them. - Jess Decourcy Hinds (source)
• For me, it was about this character who was constantly trying to escape a story that is told about her and not authored by her. Trans women, we get stuck in other people’s stories…  - Kai Cheng Thom (source)
• Don't let them erase us. - Melinda Lo (source)
• It started with a tiny trickle and has just turned into a flood, trying to wash people’s freedoms and ideas away. - Tanita S. Davis (source)
• Works like mine have helped them come to terms with who they are and feel validated in the fact that there is somebody else that exists in the world like them - and you want to remove that from them? - George M. Johnson (source)