{"id":6396,"date":"2017-01-20T09:39:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T03:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=6396"},"modified":"2017-01-20T09:39:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T03:54:55","slug":"the-hypocrisy-in-transwomen-beauty-pageants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/the-hypocrisy-in-transwomen-beauty-pageants\/","title":{"rendered":"The hypocrisy in transwomen beauty\u00a0pageants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathmandu\/Pahichan – Please do not address them as \u2018Miss TG\u2019. Miss TG\u00a0is an incorrect term\u00a0to describe the selection of one transwoman purely based on her cosmetic appearance and ability to pass as a biological female. Anyone who has traveled to at least two countries\u00a0across the world\u00a0would know that a single transwoman can never represent the billions\u00a0of transwomen around the world, who come in all sizes, shapes, colors, ethnicity, nationality and physical appearance.<\/p>\n

The world\u00a0is the land of diversity. There is no one defining element that can be taken separately from the land \u00a0and projected as the representative of other transwomen\u2019s identities. That is why we have the concept of unity in diversity. This \u2018unity in diversity\u2019 applies to the physical appearance of our transwomen too. The outcome of a reality show type contest held to find so called good looking T-girls cannot be taken as the representative woman of every other transwoman, most of whom don\u2019t resemble any of the\u00a0Miss TG\u00a0contestants.<\/p>\n

These Miss TG\u00a0are celebrated purely because they fit into a narrow concept of beauty \u2013 a cisnormative and transphobic concept that is be\u00a0ing imposed on all the transwomen.<\/p>\n

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Will we ever see a day when a dark\u00a0skinned transwoman or a non-operative transwoman get declared as Miss TG\u00a0 ?\u00a0 All these organizers would say that they are respecting transwomen and would preach trans\u00a0rights but they are promoting social destruction by telling our teenagers and young adults that if they do not pass as female, they are not beautiful.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
I don\u2019t prefer a transwoman chosen along these lines to represent my fellow trans citizens to the rest of the world. My \u2018Miss TG\u2019 is out there sitting before her mirror and wondering whether her black face and plump body doesn\u2019t suit the \u201cstandards\u201d of beauty, falsely promoted as \u201cstandards\u201d.<\/div>\n
If we try to seek a cirnormative comfort in transwomen\u2019s outlook, we already have marginalized a lot of our sisters behind, for just because they wish to stay in their natural look.<\/div>\n
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Some trans people use hormones in order to look as the way they feel, & some go under Sex Reassignment Surgery. But not all trans people want it. Many are quite comfortable in their body. But trans people also get to cis-normative beauty. Trans people who prefer not to bring changes in their body, & live as the gender they feel, are highly stigmatized. Why should transgender beauty be defined cisnormative way???<\/div>\n

What I have to say is, \u201cSociety usually don\u2019t accept transwomen. And when they do, they try to fit us in cisnormative rules. When they see transwomen in their natural phase, they squeeze their cheeks and show a rotten face. Yes a lot of transwomen take hormones by their wish or inner feeling, but many transwomen use hormones, go permanent beard removing, just to \u201cfit\u201d in society. And again people tell us when you be a woman, you have to be fully woman. Sorry I am a transwoman. I am what I am. I don\u2019t have to do surgeries and construct a vagina. I don\u2019t have to transplant an ovary. I don\u2019t have to be pregnent. I am not meant for it. It is my penis. I want to keep this. I don\u2019t got to remove this to \u201cfit\u201d in society. I am glad with my ID cards mention my gender as \u201cOther\u201d. I don\u2019t have to put babies 9 month in my belly. I am not meant for natural reproduction. That\u2019s not a \u201cshame\u201d, not a \u201cpride\u201d, it is the reality.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty of transwomen come in all shape, sizes and physical appearances, regardless of their ability to pass as a biological female.<\/p>\n

#Trans<\/a>\u00a0#Cisnormation<\/a>\u00a0#TransBeauty<\/a>\u200b\u200b<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kathmandu\/Pahichan – Please do not address them as \u2018Miss TG\u2019. Miss TG\u00a0is an incorrect term\u00a0to describe the selection of one transwoman purely based on her cosmetic appearance and ability to pass as a biological female. Anyone who has traveled to at least two countries\u00a0across the world\u00a0would know that a single transwoman can never represent the billions\u00a0of transwomen around the world, who come in all sizes, shapes, colors, ethnicity, nationality and physical appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":6397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,621,492,490],"tags":[1294,1293,458,1077],"class_list":["post-6396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-rights","category-news","category-opinion","category-slider","tag-trans-cisnormation-transbeauty","tag-other","tag-transgender","tag-transwomen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6398,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions\/6398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}