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I'm tired of transphobic people dropping pictures of what they perceive as ugly trans women or men. As if that alone is a legitimate claim on how they are illegitimate, as if cis people don't already degrade each other on their bodies.
Perceived ugliness, especially in cartoons and media promoting propaganda, has been a tool of discrimination for decades. If a group of people can be satirized enough, a distinct otherness of incompetence is born. Prejudice is validated by a perceived authority.
Prejudice can remain for those in power when ignorance can be promoted and unquestioned. Despite the myriad of identities behind the umbrella of being trans, transphobic rhetoric remains prominent because ugliness is seen as a valid tool by misogny to measure people.
Gender is a construct, but people really need to go deeper and realize why this is truth and why this truth is hidden from us in a patriarchal society. Gender norms are policed just as much as perceived ugliness and beauty to keep behaviors in line. Being trans challenges that.
