Oh Dear

[Content Note: Transphobia; body policing.]

Tim Gunn on trans people as fashion models:
The fact that fashion designers would put basically adolescent-shaped boys or men in women's clothes is head-scratching for me because, anatomically, women and men have different shapes...So, to be looking at women's fashion on a tall, skinny guy with no hips, there's no way you can project yourself into those clothes.
I know that trans people criticizing cis people is the worst thing ever. I also get that queers making catty sarcastic comments about other queer people is passé.

However.

Trans people? Fashion? HIPS? Tim hon, next time I'm in the city, I promise I'll introduce you to some trans people and take you to a fashion show. You'll love it.

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