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Multiple comments on this story demonstrate how wrong it is to assume trans vulvas don't look "real," including one woman whose gynecologist was concerned when she couldn't find her cervix during an exam. If a professional who sees multiple vulvas every day can't immediately "clock" a trans vulva, who can?

Plastic surgeons certainly have an agenda when they push for unnecessary surgeries like Pin's, and I don't dispute that. But Pin's insistence that you can "tell the difference" (and also shaming one naturally small-lipped women) between a cis and trans vulva (or even a cis woman who has had work done) just creates another impossible standard for women (to be more lippy/"natural"), which, as I point out in the article, will cause real violence against both cis and trans women who don't look the way she thinks "natural" vulvas "should" look.

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Dr. Casey Lawrence
Dr. Casey Lawrence

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Canadian author of three LGBT YA novels. PhD from Trinity College Dublin. Check out my lists for stories by genre/type.

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