Femme Or Die

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Femme Or Die
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
March 18 2009


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/03/femme-or-die.html


One of my cisgender sisters asked me a question during a phone conversation why we transwomen spend a lot of time focusing on the outer trapping of performing our feminine gender roles such as makeup, being impeccably dressed, our hair impeccably groomed, et cetera.

We wish to do so not only for our own vanity sakes, but because doing so could possibly save our lives one day.

One of the things people fail to realize is that we inherit the good and the bad with a gender transition. One of the things we inherited is the fact that all women, be they cisgender or transgender are moving targets for sexual assault, violence or worse.