Saturday, May 29, 2010
The Trans No Makeup Zone
Posted by Monica Roberts at 6:00 PM

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/05/trans-no-makeup-zone.html

There's an interesting discussion going on at Womanist Musings about makeup in reaction to the No Makeup Zone Today show episode. I'm going to toss in another angle of this makeup debate, from a transwoman's point of view.

One o the things we are constantly dealing with in addition to the usual baggage women deal with in terms of the beauty standard is also our insecurities about whether were accepted as women, period.

Those concerns are elevated or depressed based on whether or not you've had GRS, race, class and how long you've been living in the feminine gender role.