I don’t have the energy to start a back and forth so I hope you’ll understand why I’m saying this. I really don’t want to see trans people depicted as conventionally unattractive on television right now. We still have to convince the world that we’re capable of being attractive in the first place. There’s a strong presumption that trans = ugly and I really struggle with that as someone who places a high degree of personal importance on achieving beauty.

I know that’s a toxic standard but could some other group please challenge it first? We’ve got enough on our plate.

I’m not really a huge TV person so this isn’t quite the same thing but it’s something that’s turned me off the new Baldur’s Gate 3: all the characters are just too shiny for me. It’s something I really appreciate about disco elysium for having their characters looking like etc, the art style all leaves very little room for conventionally attractive characters (indeed, it’s a conscious decision by the designers that the lead duo is supposed to be ‘pretty ugly’)

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