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1. bailey//rockruff⚪ (ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz)'s status on Friday, 27-Jul-2018 19:52:00 EDT bailey//rockruff⚪

   i would like to note that you can draw any characters with any "gendered" characteristics as much as you want, so long as you are being respectful and normalising the idea of trans people having those "atypical" features

   there are so many trans women out there with stubble, or other features that don't fit the shitty bigoted view of what a woman "should look like", and that's entirely valid.

   you can be any gender and have any body features.

   1. bailey//rockruff⚪ (ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz)'s status on Friday, 27-Jul-2018 19:54:00 EDT bailey//rockruff⚪

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      if you draw a trans woman with stubble, good on your for normalising such a thing, making it easier for trans women with stubble to be accepted by the mainstream.

      i don't want media that constantly portrays some unattainable perfect image of what a trans person "should be/look like" even if that's the image i aspire to have

      i want something that makes me and others like me feel better about ourselves NOW, outside of shitty bigoted gender norms

      1. bailey//rockruff⚪ (ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz)'s status on Friday, 27-Jul-2018 20:02:10 EDT bailey//rockruff⚪

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         i want to see myself in media too. that's why i want to see trans women being realistically portrayed as having stubble, not having the energy or desire to shave, not even looking remotely like the disgustingly limited and controlling idea of what a woman "should look like"

         a woman can be anyone. not just the specific people who fit a precise list of things detailing exactly how their body should look

         men rarely get this shit. think about that.

         1. bailey//rockruff⚪ (ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz)'s status on Friday, 27-Jul-2018 20:04:51 EDT bailey//rockruff⚪

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            i like to imagine a world where anyone can look any way they want and be accepted.

            there's no room in a world like that for people insisting on upholding restrictive and invasive gender norms to invalidate others. how others look is not your business. and not every character who is a trans woman is going to be like you or like what you aspire to be because NOT EVERYONE IS THE SAME and gender has NOTHING to do with appearance.

            1. bailey//rockruff⚪ (ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz)'s status on Friday, 27-Jul-2018 20:07:59 EDT bailey//rockruff⚪

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               tldr: draw/write trans characters' appearance however you want. the only thing that matters is that you make them out to be normal and accepted and treat them like you would any other character.