This is gonna sound weird but I wish we were depicted with features that make us clockable like a brow ridge or shoulders or a blocky silhouette in art defending us.
Like I’ve been looking through comics and almost every depiction of a trans woman looks identical to a cis woman… which like, I get why a trans person would be uncomfortable with drawing dysphoric features, but I feel like it dulls the point of the political art.
Defending trans people who pass is easy, like even transphobes can do that, but defending trans people who aren’t conventionally attractive and don’t pass is much harder. Those are the people who get into confrontations in public bathrooms, and who experience the most hatred and constant micro-aggressions from almost everyone. The stage where you “don’t look good” is when you’re most vulnerable and is an almost universal experience for all trans women that tends to last much longer if you’re underprivileged.
I would just like seeing more stuff that affirms non-passing trans women are still women and that, in general, women don’t need to be pretty to deserve respect and basic decency from other people.
I wish that cis women were portrayed in all the various shapes and sizes they actually exist in. Then “passing” wouldn’t be a comparison to some idolized feminine form that even most cis women lose.
Totally agree. Goes for men too, by the way.
wait, you mean to tell me that not all men have biceps the size of my head?
I do want that idolized feminine form, though.
Right? 😭😭😭
The beauty industry brainwashing is real
The beauty industry has done unimaginable harm to women and especially trans women.
Oh absolutely so do I. I feel like they already got me, if that makes sense? It’s too late for me to have realistic expectations or ever be satisfied, but things could be better for future generations at least