when i talked about my nose to the ffs surgeon he brought out before and afters of other jewish (also mediterranean etc) trans women who deliberately kept their nose shape through surgery entirely. i still don't know what i'm going to do about it, but that was comforting to see
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"I told them I wanted to look more like my cousin, I gave them her photo as a reference She's just as Jewish as I am, what does it mean to say she looks less Jewish than any other Jewish person"
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it means the cultural stereotype generates forms of social pressure & anxiety surrounding the appearance of diasporic jewish women that it doesn't for gentiles... even if we have the same nose. it's not like dysphoria, much less clear to me aesthetics will increase mental health
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