This happens a lot in the trans community. Cis “ally” artists love to draw trans men with giant garish top surgery scars and trans women with visible facial hair, big bulges in their crotch, and bodies that look like they’ve never seen a drop of estrogen. In other words, they draw us with features that most trans people find extremely disturbing and painful on our own bodies, features we work very hard to hide or fix.

When called out on it, these artists inevitably retreat to, “well, some trans women/trans men/nonbinary folks have that feature.” Are there some radical gender-fuck queer folk who rock boobs and a beard simultaneously, in a kind of anarchist “fuck the system” vibe? Sure. And all the best to those folks. Do whatever makes you happy.

But these folks the exception, not the rule. And the artists in question draw trans people like this as the rule, not the exception. They don’t draw ten normal-looking trans people and one rainbow explosion gender warrior. They draw them all with prominent features that would trigger most trans people. Like, they don’t even bother having their trans women shave. The way some “inclusive” artists draw trans people is indistinguishable from the way literal hate artists draw us. Rather than hate, I think for a lot of them it’s just a sexual fetish.