Feministing writer Jos Truitt puts it, “trans women are dis… - Anne Helen Petersen

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Feministing writer Jos Truitt puts it, “trans women are disrespected and treated terribly when they don’t pass, but if they do pass they’re called out for upholding the gender binary and cis standards of beauty. It is an impossible bind.”13

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