Trans femininity

Photo by Anne: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photography-of-a-woman-wearing-green-dress-985685/

Being a trans woman does not mean you owe the world femininity or to be femme presenting. To be a woman in the world has always been about exploring boundaries of societal understandings of womanhood, expectations about your presentations, and then how you personally position yourself within those. If you live in a society where to be trans is a potentially dangerous affair femininity is a safety net you use as a means of ensuring you are not physically…