#but low key they'd be far more tolerable if I didn't have these stupid thicc thighs and dumptruck ass messing shit up

[illbesp0ke]

Saw someone in the notes of a post saying they 'don't understand anorexic trans people, cause skeletons are the most obvious indicator of your birth sex, so what're you even trying to do here?'

And it low key irked me, but replies were closed, so: here it is.

While there's sex steroid mediated differences between skeletons (which I'm deeply brainwormed about, tyvm), they're pretty subtle as far as sexual dimorphism goes.

But you know what makes a lot more of a difference? Freaking fat storage patterns (who are also sex steroid mediated, mostly). So, for most people (esp if they're not on HRT or started out heavier), getting thinner is a step toward androgyny - which is a step further from their agab.

Y'know, all that ignoring that EDs aren't just about looks, and there's trauma, self-hatred, and control-based factors that trigger them (and hell knows trans people tend to have a lot of those).