Teens and Transgenders: Portraits from Charlie White
From artist and photographer Charlie White comes a series of photos with teens and m-f transexuals side by side. He picked subjects who look eerily like each other. I’m not exactly sure what he’s trying to say with the portraits, but they’re strangely interesting and disturbing. More info here.
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How we look, or how we feel? So much seems to center on how M t F transexuals LOOK in relation to our acceptance by society. My biggest struggle is passing when people talk to me about my transition. “Your hands are to large, your bones are to large.” “You are bald, you are 6’2″tall”. “I can ALWAYS tell transexuals when I see them”. Even a female to male transexual I lived with would make snide remarks to me. I do the best I can. Yet, beauty and fitting in make or break people all the time, regular or transexual, male or female, young or old. We are born into a world of competition based upon various factors, and ALL of us fall to the need to fight our way ahead. Living with this fact alone can destroy you, if you allow it to. Getting old, gaining weight, losing jobs and spouses/lovers to people who we perceive as better than us. Living as the gender we want, will not suddenly make the world a better place. If anything, prepare for struggles unlike anything you have ever faced. Every major change we go through in life, for better or worse, will never be a cake walk. The young people on the left, the older on the right, do look the same. Is Charlie White, merely portraying, that no matter our looks, age or gender, we are all the same? One question though, if you will always be an ugly manly transwoman or obvious girly transman, do you best remain your actual born gender, so that the pretty pasable M t F transexuals, or super butch dykes easily pasable F t M, are better able to lead their transition “gigs” more happily, without all the “wannabe transexuals” who do not pass well, causing problems in the social scheme of things? Hmmmm, does the term “fitting in” really deserve to trump the less fortunate? And who will get to make that call, if that is the “honorable or sensible” case for the trans community?