i don’t think i’m exaggerating when i say that the average height for women in the US would increase by at least an inch if teen girls were allowed to eat as much as teen boys are
and not to bring my own clocky bitch ass into this but if cis women weren’t so consistently starved their entire lives you’d see a lot more cis women with the kind of bodies that we currently associate closely with trans women. the amount that the standards of feminine presentation are culturally defined by malnutrition is crazy
Not just allowed the same amount of food but allowed/encouraged to have the same amount of physical activity.
I went to a paramilitary school and held myself to the same physical standards the boys were placed on (like girls only have to do x amount of pull ups but boys have to do y), and the body i developed from that made me happy but also had my mom saying I looked like a man
But if all girls were raised to be physically active and risk taking as boy children are, and encouraged to help physically the same way (i need a big strong man to help move these chairs!), the body shape development would be closer to the same
