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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.

One example: Believing my body should look like a cis woman's, as if that is typical of trans women, would leave me feeling inadequate and with expectations that will never be met. I have seen in-person the bodies of many trans women in many stages of transition care with a variety of plans and qualities of doctors. None have had a body indistinguishable from a typical cis woman's. I have seen in-person the bodies of a goos few cis women. None have had a body indistinguishable from a typical trans woman's. Most trans women will have a body that looks like a trans woman's. If we cannot personally accept that, we will be disappointed forever. If we cannot accept that talking to others, we do things like communicate to others their bodies are insufficient.

see, that’s not actually a thing really. There isn’t a maximum amount of HRT before you’ll overdose or something. There is a maximum dose of various anti androgens, and of oral E, but not methods of e which skip first pass metabolism, the risk profile is so shallow because E levels can be about a hundred times higher than the normal necessary for feminization with minimal negative effects. If you were on a “maximum” dose and were not allowed to increase dose or alter administration method to one that can more easily increase, that tells me that you were possibly prevented from reaching full potential at the time. As an additional factor, many doctors do not prescribe or tell their patients about progesterone, which has evidence (though only a small number of clinical studies) pointing towards helping development.

Regardless of your particular case, as in fact, even cis women can have AA cups, what I said about that being true for many trans women is objectively the case. Dosage and level guidelines for trans women often err strongly towards very low doses, and many doctors are blatantly transphobic and will refuse to listen to trans people asking to raise doses. Trans women seeming to have smaller boobs cannot be separated from the deplorable state of trans health care around the world.

I have seen in-person the bodies of many trans women in many stages of transition care with a variety of plans and qualities of doctors. None have had a body indistinguishable from a typical cis woman's. I have seen in-person the bodies of a goos few cis women. None have had a body indistinguishable from a typical trans woman's.

you’re blatantly parroting “we can always tell” rhetoric

I am not separating my view from the reality of trans care. I have wrangled plenty with bad doctors and acceptable doctors. I know care could be better. Perhaps there was a care option that would have given me larger breasts from hormones alone. That could be true and would be neither here nor there.

We are not living in the cyberpunk-solarutopia where transition care consistently produces results indistinguishable from the general perception of the bodies of cis women. Until we get there, there will be many, many trans women whose bodies have features that identifiably look like the features of trans women. That is unfortunate to many people. That is also reality. Wishing it away or asking it never be mentioned in any form will not protect us. Allowing individuals to find acceptance and joy and womanhood in the body that is theirs will.

To reiterate: I have found satisfaction with my body with the access to transition care available to me in the early 21st century. My body looks like a trans woman's body. That is wonderful to me. It is not insufficient to me. Please do not tell me it should be insufficient to me. I will continue to pursue my own transition and to pursue improved transition access. Regardless, my body is the body I have, and it is identifiably a trans woman's body.

If we tell ourselves and each other that looking like how trans women look is insufficient, we are failing ourselves and each other.

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.

One example: Believing my body should look like a cis woman's, as if that is typical of trans women, would leave me feeling inadequate and with expectations that will never be met. I have seen in-person the bodies of many trans women in many stages of transition care with a variety of plans and qualities of doctors. None have had a body indistinguishable from a typical cis woman's. I have seen in-person the bodies of a goos few cis women. None have had a body indistinguishable from a typical trans woman's. Most trans women will have a body that looks like a trans woman's. If we cannot personally accept that, we will be disappointed forever. If we cannot accept that talking to others, we do things like communicate to others their bodies are insufficient.

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.

A cis man is doing something feminine? That's fine, better than fine even. Trying to mock him for that is transmisogynistic regardless of whether the person in question is transfem or not. He may be able to exempt himself from that transmisogyny, but that doesn't make the gender policing good or progressive.

When Candace Ownes tranvesitgated Brigitte Macron, she was being transmisogynistic even as she targeted that transmisogyny on a cis woman. The fact that the cis woman in question then exempted herself by suing her for defamation and providing evidence that she was not in fact, transfem, does not mean Candace's accusation was not rooted in deeply transmisogynistic beliefs.

It's this moment. This one right here is how you know they love each other. See, Chidi teaches Elanor in every timeline... But here we see Elanor reaching out. She doesn't have a lot to offer Chidi, but she's TRYING. She's TRYING to teach him something that he doesn't know, and SHE IS IMITATING HIM not because it's a joke, but because she's using him as a model for love. This kind of imitation is a CLASSIC way for someone like Elanor to dip a toe into the pool of emotional vulnerability, into reciprocating effort and feelings.