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Female beauty standards are a double-edged sword for trans women. It is a neverending balancing act, getting the “right” combination of feminine and masculine in our appearances to align with society’s impossibly narrow criterion in a way that offers us safety in passing as our true genders — and that line is very thin.
Navigating Beauty Standards as a Trans Woman Is an Impossible Balancing Act | Katelyn Burns for Allure (via gaywrites)
The hatred of trans women is partly anchored in homophobia and the fear of femininity in men, which again – of course – is caused by misogyny or the hypermasculine contempt of women. This is why the transgender cause also is a feminist issue.
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Whether we like it or not, movies and media have a large role in shaping perceptions, especially when it comes to marginalised identities.
When audiences attend movies like this, movies that are set in our tangible, real life world, they have an expectation of legitimacy. They expect the producers, the director, and the actors to accurately portray a character’s story, but when trans people are cut out of the creative process like they were in Anything,audiences won’t even be aware of the betrayal.
Sexuality is fluid and there are myriad reasons and situations in which transgender women may feel their sexuality shifting after undergoing hormone replacement therapy.
Given that it’s fairly common, fears of a sexuality flip are a frequent concern for trans people starting hormone replacement therapy, especially for those already married or in a committed relationship with a straight partner. When I began transitioning last year, my marriage disintegrated quickly. Not only was my wife straight, but she worried I’d be attracted to men after transitioning. In retrospect, she was right to worry.
"My cousin’s gift made me think of her, my great-grandmother, my mother, and all the women in my family before me."
Growing up, distance wasn’t the only thing to make me feel alienated from my family. For many people, the most basic bedrock of support is family. And for many trans people, the road to transition is also marked by the fear of losing family.
When all of the answers to a young child's questions point to a missing girlhood, what else is she supposed to think?
Like many other tomboys, I’ve grown to appreciate my femininity now in womanhood since I’ve transitioned in adulthood. If I had transitioned when I was younger, would I have laid down my sports in favor of Barbies and crinolines? I don’t think so. I may have had a princess phase but I can’t imagine my love of sports just disappearing in thin air. What stereotype was I supposedly reinforcing?
Trans people must defend their existence every damn day and it’s exhausting
Don’t you dare tell trans people to calm down!
Katelyn Burns makes a very important point over at Medium:
“How would it make you feel if you started describing yourself to someone, “Hi I am a woman…” and they interrupted you to debate the very first word you described yourself with?
Imagine doing this every day of your life. Picture yourself hearing comments as you shop in the store or eat out at a restaurant. Imagine getting dogpiled on Twitter by people asking for details about your genitals or people denying that you exist. How would you handle it all?
You’d be probably be a little upset, maybe even completely enraged. Maybe you’d be in a constant state of defense. You’d be rioting in the streets if your humanity were denied on a daily, systemic basis in this way. So please, don’t you dare tell trans people to calm down.
Read the rest of the article here!
(Illustration from Katelyn’s twitter account. HT @brendalana)
Trans Girl Rage!
Great post by Katelyn Burns on trans women and bath room hate bills over at Medium.
Read it all here!
She built a community to protect the abused. Now she’s on the side of the abusers. What happened to YouTuber Laci Green?
Since YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook continue to choose the path of least resistance concerning online harassment, it’s up to us to provide love and support to those on the receiving end. Laci Green was doing that with her words, actions, and her Facebook group. It’s distressing to see her change her mind — while endorsing abuse that has harmed far too many for far too long.
We were in a crowded ladies' room on Halloween when the zipper on on my 7-year-old daughter’s cat costume got stuck. “DADDY!!!!," she screamed, nearly in tears. Almost immediately, I could feel strangers' faces snap around to focus on me and my face,…
One of the most common questions that parents and adults ask kids is: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” While my friends would always give answers like “doctor" or “policeman" or “astronaut," there was one answer that I always wanted to give, but never could: "mom."
Fears of trans women taking over women’s sports simply doesn’t match up with the reality of the effects that transitioning and hormone replacement therapy have on an athlete’s body.
Until recently, transgender female athletes faced a near-total ban from competitive sports. Fueled by fears of big, burly men masquerading as women to gain an athletic advantage, governing bodies like the International Olympic Committee and the International Association of Athletics Federation created ridiculous and humiliating sex-testing procedures that remained in place for decades despite little scientific support.
Critics who stand in the way of the rights of transgender children stand in the way of their adolescence. I should know—I missed mine.
What is meant to be a cultural hallmark of American adolescence became a panic-attack-inducing ordeal for a closeted trans girl like me. I didn't even dance at my own prom, and though I was able to fake my way through the night, it left me completely empty inside. The chance to have experienced prom as my true self—as Katelyn—is now long gone.
I don't regret growing up as an athlete. But not everything about sports is healthy, and for me, as a transgender woman, the locker room was toxic.
Masculinity is performative for everyone to a certain extent, but for me it was especially essential. To be seen as feminine in the slightest meant becoming a pariah, so I had to be an actress to survive. It just so happens that I never was a boy or a man, so my acting job was made quite a bit more difficult.
Trans people must defend our existence every damn day and it’s exhausting
There’s a reason why I call the trans community “Aggressive Porcupines,” we need to actively defend ourselves every minute of every day or risk being erased. Don’t you dare tell trans people to “respect both sides.” There’s only one side and that is that we exist and that we’re allowed to decide for ourselves how we are defined.
An Essay by Katelyn Burns
To be a woman in our society carries a demand from society to be pretty. Non-pretty people are dismissed, excluded or marginalized. Over and over again those words reverberated through my mind. Among late transitioning trans women that I’ve met we all share a similar narrative. We were always “too” something.
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This account is a collection of the works of Katelyn Burns, a freelance journalist who writes on the transgender community, feminism, and internet culture. She can be found on twitter at transscribe or you can follow her official page on Facebook at Katelyn Burns. This account is not formally affiliated with Katelyn, and it’s not promised that she will personally see any asks or submissions. Please consider donating to her on her official Patreon or follow her on social media and help continue to support our community’s freelancers and content creators!
