Let me tell you how much I hate this take in the image. It's going to drive me up the wall if I don't https://twitter.com/carolynmichelle/status/1338392388234956800

So first, the idea that anorexia is only for the affluent is an old, stale take that's already been pretty well debunked. See there's this thing that's basically a diagnosis gap. I first saw it discussed in relation to Black girls and eating disorders

There was this old erroneous idea that Black women were shielded by Black cultural norms from disordered eating and that's why the diagnosis numbers were so low. But surprise! It was just that doctors were racist and less likely to diagnose them!

Affluent people can AFFORD eating disorder diagnoses more often but that doesn't mean they HAVE eating disorders more often

Second, trans people disproportionately have eating disorders. Two reasons

One: because many of us are being treated for a mind/body disconnect, problems with our body image can be uncovered by doctors in treatment

Two: many trans people are medically prescribed disordered eating to lose weight to access surgery

Anyway. God. Had to yell about that. It makes me so mad

Oh, interesting fact about this was that there were also multiple reasons. Not only were practitioners being racist but a gap in health insurance left Black households without the coverage to obtain a diagnosis for instance https://twitter.com/KivanBay/status/1338394920403419136

That gap obviously also came from racism, as health insurance companies regularly discriminated against Black people, and racism again as colonial capitalism denies Black people the money for coverage, but just as always it's a problem with a lot of different, related factors

Lastly if you're curious about fat trans people having their surgeries or hormone treatments denied due to their weight I wrote about it before I came out here https://link.medium.com/x7kH7E7Vccb 

I misunderstood this reply before but it is correct and I would add likely comes from the way we construct and perform our genders through body image and the way fat is seen as degendering https://twitter.com/goopkid17/status/1338432069316251649

A lot of feminine gender performance, especially those rituals that can reinforce social bonds and organize social hierarchies, for instance, is based in diet culture

And men have their own ideas about hard bodies, masculinity, power vs powerlessness and how that is transcribed on the body, and the gym was historically usually a very homosocial environment

I also wrote about this here before coming out https://link.medium.com/JiA8PMMZccb