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And unlike those male ******-chasers who say they like T-girls because we are supposedly the best of both worlds, I am attracted to trans women because we are all woman! My femaleness is so intense that it has overpowered the trillions of lame-ass Y chromosomes that sheepishly hide inside the cells of my body. And my femininity is so relentless that it survived thirty years of male socialization and twenty years of testosterone poisoning. Some kinky-identified thrill-seekers may envision trans women as androgyne fuck fantasies, but thats only because they are too self-absorbed to appreciate how completely fucking female we are.

Then I replied it is almost always their (trans womens) eyes. When I look into them, I see both endless strength and inconsolable sadness. I see someone who has overcome humiliation and abuses that would flatten the average person. I see a woman who was made to feel shame for her desires and yet had the courage to pursue them anyway. I see a woman who was forced against her will into boyhood, who held onto a dream that everybody in her life desperately tried to beat out of her, who refused to listen to the endless stream of people who told her that who she was and what she wanted was impossible.

When I look into a trans womans eyes, I see a profound appreciation for how fucking empowering it can be to be female, an appreciation that seems lost on many cis women who sadly take their female identities and anatomies for granted, or who perpetually seek to cast themselves as victims instead of instigators. I see a wisdom that can only come from having to fight for your right to be recognized as female, a raw strength that only comes from unabashedly asserting your right to be feminine in an inhospitable world. In a trans womans eyes, I see someone who understands that, in a culture seemingly fueled on male homophobic hysteria, choosing to be female and openly expressing ones femininity is not a sign of frivolousness, weakness, or passivity, it is a fucking badge of courage. Everybody loves to say drag queens are fabulous, but nobody seems to get the fact that trans women are fucking badass!

-Julia Serrano

Just sharing one of the most genuinely empowering things I have ever read. Tearing up right now. Good night.