How to Love Being a Non-Passing Trans Woman in 9 Affirming Steps

[stephaniec]

How to Love Being a Non-Passing Trans Woman in 9 Affirming Steps

http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/01/how-love-being-non-passing/

Everyday Feminism/January 15, 2016 by Kai Cheng Thom

"Janet Mock has not yet come out as a trans woman in the pages of Marie Claire, and Laverne Cox is an obscure actress years away from making her big break in Orange Is the New Black.  There is no one on TV to be your "possibility model," to tell you that you that you just might be beautiful.

You are terrified of transitioning, because while you are terrified of a future of staying trapped in the wrong gender presentation, more terrifying still is the prospect of becoming "one of those" trans women:"

[suzifrommd]

Amazing article.

[Ms Grace]

Great line...

There will always be someone telling you that you are ugly, unnatural, unfeminine, that you don't pass. Sometimes, you will be that person.

[Devlyn]

Nice, I didn't care for this falsehood though:

...Eight years later, self-appointed trans spokesperson Caitlyn Jenner will say that this kind of trans woman "looks like a man in a dress" and makes people feel uncomfortable....

Not only is Caitlyn not a self appointed spokesperson, she said the exact opposite:

"I'm not a spokesman for this community, I'm a spokesman for me," Jenner says

Article here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2016/01/14/caitlyn-jenners-journey-continues-es-am-cait/78811346/

[Emily Rose]

I can't say that I would every be bothered as passing myself off as something I'm not. I just want to be the real me!


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