Quote from: Janae on November 20, 2013, 03:44:04 AM
It shouldn't matter at the end of the day but it always will. Most people can't get past the fact that someone so beautiful used to be male. No matter how perfect she looks her past will always be the focus if she's out. I think it's mostly an American thing because in Paris & Milan the fashion world has embraced trans models, Lea T is the most recent but there have been others that had successful careers.
Like Tracy Africa...



She was a high fashion/print model in the 70's & 80's. She's work for some of the biggest brands in the industry. But her career was cut short when a very hateful mean gay man outed her to some hair stylists, make up artists, and industry clients. She ended up having to leave for Europe to work because she was unable to get jobs after it was discovered. To me if a trans women of color could make it in the 70's & 80's when the world was very different a latina trans women should be able to do it in 2013.
I dont understand how people get so into it, and cant get past the fact that someone who was male, now looks so amazing as a woman. I saw online that bigotry, and the hatred of people commenting on the CNN page for Carmen Carrera. I even put myself out there so that I could see what people would say, and I got torn apart. The subject was about whether she should be able to walk for VS, but the argument ended up not being about that. IT was about whether she was a woman or not, and people saying that trans women are not women and never will be. I swear to god, some of these people had no idea what the hell they are talking about but just like us, we are entitled to our own opinion, just as we are to them. I believe hat the common folk really don't care and it is the few that speak out so strong that ruin everything. Everyone that is close to me before I came out is still close to me, and now I actually have a few more people that are closer to me, and the friends that I do have, we are closer than ever. SO I like to believe that most people will accept us as women, and not as people that are screwed up in the head, who are just pretending to be women.
I would love to model after transition, and I really hope that the fact that I was born into this world in the wrong body, doesn't ruin my dreams before I have a chance to even try.