Whose Baby is That?

How is this a serious question that isn't dripping with transmisogyny?

A few years ago I saw an artist do an anatomy study of the breasts of trans women. Trans women with and without wide shoulders, with and without >A-cup-size breasts, fat or skinny or in-between. It was massive for me. One of those drawings looked like me. I had never seen that before. Trans-favorable artists often depict trans women to look like cis women as a compliment and a concession. That is not what I want.

My chest, pre-surgery or post-surgery, is not unwomanly. It is a trans woman's chest. In early HRT, my areolas were puffy in the way that is common for trans women. Pre-surgery, it was AA-cup, which is not average amongst cis women but extremely common amongst trans women. Post-surgery, it's B-cup and has scars and a difference in shape and motion profile from the average cis women's breasts. Before and after, the breadth of my shoulders and ribs means my breasts look different.

My body is a woman's body and my body is a trans woman's body. It looks different from a cis woman's body. It is a woman's body. That is reality and that serves me.

I understand the value in depicting trans women with the aspects of embodiment that we often desire, and doing the same when creating digital avatars and such. It feels good to portray us as how our transition goals often fall.

Cis women have wide shoulders, a cups, even aa cups, wide chests. Cis women are skinny, fat, have puffy areolas. Cis women's bodies are just as varied as trans women's bodies and in the exsct same ways.

he looks SO shocked and taken aback and goes “what did you just say? how do you know my name?” so i sit there for a moment trying to figure out what the fuck he is talking about, and then go, “…. bitch?” and he looks so relieved and tells me his name is mitch.

Despite all the talk about 'pedophiles' on tumblr, there is zero evidence that any CSA has been perpetrated by the people accused, there is zero evidence that any actual CSAM has been shared or surreptitiously circulated at any point. There is zero evidence.

Like, that's it. Despite all the bullshit, despite all the what-aboutisms, despite all the deliberate and constant misinterpretation, despite all the twisting and obfuscation, despite all the mass surveillance and gang-stalking of trans women, nobody has turned up a god damn fucking thing. And no screenshots of tumblr posts do not fucking count sorry!