we DO grow old and happy. btw.

And you find love and it stays with you.

Older women are so, so beautiful, and older trans women are no exception. Celebrate the beauty of our elders! Celebrate trans beauty!

I wanted to share some more of these, specifically trans women of color. The images I'm posting are from a project called To Survive On This Shore and it's an interview project. I am only posting a handful so it's so worth checking out!

This is Linda, 60

Alexis, 64

Helena, 63

Kendrah, 72 (!!)

Tasha, 65

It was deeply healing to me to discover this project. The site has selected photos and attached interviews and it's definitely worth your time. I didn't include any because the focus of this post imo is transfems but there are a lot of beautiful interviews with transmasc people too if you're interested! But that'll have to be another post 💖

for those interested, the photographer is Jess T. Dugan. The link to this particular project is as follows:

Please remember this every time someone tries to insist that being Trans is just something young people are suddenly doing or that you're only valid if you're white or that you're only valid if you're skinny or if you're only valid if you start transitioning on EXACTLY your 18th birthday because any time before, you're too young to know what you're doing, and any time after, 'you'd have started earlier if you were really like that' which is all bullshit bullshit BULLSHIT.

I'm 43 and I'm still young as fuck. I'm as fast as I was at 20, way more strong and twice as smart. I can't fucking WAIT to get older