It isn’t just avoidance of touch, disrespect, and street harassment or abuse, but open stares of disgust. Fat women are found disgusting and abnormal by some, and by others, they are fetishized. Again, we can see this is something that trans people who don’t “read” as cis go through. At the intersection of being fat and trans, sometimes transition is held hostage to weight loss despite the devastating mental effects that can have.įat women are shunned socially. This is something fat people have to experience a lot, up to and including misdiagnoses, refusal to provide prescriptions, and even ignored cancers. The brilliant (on Twitter) described it as Trans Flu when your doctor blames any and all medical problems on your transness. In some ways, this can be similar to what trans people go through.
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