i love you so much, trans women who don’t or can’t pass. i love you if your voice is deep and you can’t raise it or don’t want to, if you’re bald/balding, if you have five o clock shadow you can’t get rid of, if your facial hair grows too fast to keep up with, if you have a flat chest or narrow hips or whatever it may be that strangers just can’t seem to get past, i love you. it doesn’t change the fact that you’re a woman. if you can’t, won’t, or feel you’ll never pass, i love you, i love the woman you are, and i love the way you show the world what womanhood can look like. passing is not your rite of passage into womanhood- you have always belonged regardless of whether or not you pass or ever even try to.