What you have to look like to be a transwoman

When I was like, eight years old, my parents brought home a Wii Balance Board and a copy of the game Wii Fit. They had what I think was a pretty typical relationship with health and fitness. My mother was always kind of interested in yoga and since we owned a Wii it probably made sense to buy one. They encouraged me to play it too. The game, after all, was marketed to the whole family. The Wii Balance Board had pressure sensors that tracked your balance while you played fitness games. It could also measure your weight. At the beginning of every session (which the game encouraged you to do every day), it'd measure and keep track of your weight as you worked towards your goals. Pretty normal so far. As an eight year old I hadn't ever really been exposed to fitness culture. I didn't have any "weight goals" and it's not really clear what that ought to mean for someone who hadn't hit puberty yet. All I had was the persistent messaging in media that fat people are intrinsically less "good"…