cherubs:

cherubs:

oh hey not to discourse but if youre drawing trans girls there…is a happy medium like you don’t have to draw hulking men in dresses but drawing a cis girl and tagging it as trans for hashtag representation points is…..also iffy especially if you the artist are not trans like….look at real trans girls and their bodies and use that as a reference…research things like how hrt and ffs can affect peoples looks and use that knowledge to further your diversity in your art instead of drawing offensive caricatures or tone deaf pictures of cis girls passed off for performative representation 

a good place to see the effects hrt and transition in general has on various types of bodies is the transtimelines subreddit. dr bart van de ven has an image gallery for before and after facial feminization surgery, as does dr spiegel. if you are looking for body references the transpassing subreddit has a lot of variety. of course that’s not mentioning the tumblr tags (which probably have nsfw in so be careful). the thing to take away from this is that when you are drawing trans girls you aren’t drawing men in dresses nor are you drawing cis girls with no boobs; trans women are as varied and as unique as cis women in their appearances and this deserves to be recognized and accounted for, and not as a lazy afterthought.