saw someone ask "why are trans people always skinnier in the after image of transition timelines" and the responses were pissing me the fuck off
literally the only answer is that transition timelines are meant to visually justify the necessity of transitioning to a cis audience. people won't believe you if you just say you're happier, but if you're more attractive aka a more morally righteous person, then you're allowed. a massive part of this is weight loss. fat people are hated, fat women even more, and being a fat trans woman is utter misery. transition timelines where the woman became or stayed fat don't get popular or are never posted at all. that's why you don't see them.
also every fucking answer in the comments that basically just kept repeating "fat = depressed and miserable and ugly and gross but thin = happy and active and social so transitioning just makes your life better so you get thinner because good people are thin and fat people are evil :)))))))))" fucking straight to jail. I'm done with all of you
as an example i feel it's worth mentioning that i know that at least one surgeon in my area will refuse to even see patients past some BMI threshold she's set. in my case i could get around it by seeing a different doctor in my network, but any trans person who isn't lucky enough to have an alternative is essentially going to have their gender-affirming care held ransom
