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> This is unfortunately yet another gendered imposition, with women feeling like they have to adhere to a beauty standard that comes from the male gaze.

Women who are trans feel this pressure enforced against them with public humiliation, overt misogyny, and violence.

> It doesn't help either when males who opt-in to this beauty standard for their own pleasure get praised as if they are being good women.

Trans women aren't males and don't opt-in to the male gaze. Are you referring to drag queens? There's a more nuanced conversation to be had there, but not in the current climate of terroristic acts against transgender people. Drag is often a critique of gender roles.

There is nothing grotesque about femininity or a trans woman expressing it.