trans people deserve to be a little vain as healing for the years some of us spent feeling like shit about ourselves
I remember my mom talking about a former trans student twirling her skirt and watching her reflection in a store front. I was like, “well, she’s got a lot of twirling to make up for.”
Also you cannot understand how euphoric it is to finally see yourself in the mirror, after years of seeing a stranger. A lot of my ‘vanity’ is less ‘look how much of a handsome motherfucker I am’ and more ‘look how much I look like myself. look at me existing’.
(Some of it’s revelling in my handsomeness. Trans people are just attractive af. *shrug*)
