“The ‘pretty privilege’ can give you access to spaces, just like your able body gives you access. But it makes impossible beauty standards for many other trans girls who are struggling with that right now.”

—  Janet Mock

On the beauty standards still imposed on trans women in “Janet Mock: ‘I’d never seen a young trans woman who was thriving in the world – I was looking for that’” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/15/janet-mock-id-never-seen-a-young-trans-woman-who-was-thriving-in-the-world-i-was-looking-for-that in The Guardian (2018 Apr 15)

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