fuckyeahbodypositivity:

I’ve also been uncomfortable with how much emphasis has been placed on Caitlyn Jenner’s beauty by cis people. 

Yes she is beautiful.

But a woman doesn’t have to be beautiful to deserve respect or to be a woman.

And when I see the emphasis being placed on a trans woman’s beauty when she comes out with comments like “wow she really pulled herself together,” it makes me wonder if what my fellow cis people are really saying is “she looks like what I think a woman should look like.” And where does that leave trans women who don’t meet normative (and especially cisnormative) standards of beauty?

I just want to make sure we are celebrating the beauty and worth of all trans women, not just those who are white, famous, and wealthy enough to afford any form of physical transition they desire. And that as cis people we’re being self-critical of the ways we think and speak about trans people.