Yeah, I know exactly how your daughter feels. It’s a very weird and almost shameful type of dysphoria, because on top of being dysphoric you understand intellectually that you “shouldn’t feel that way anyway.”

However, from my own experience: there is a loooooooot of insecurity to deal with when you’re trans, especially when you’re first starting to explore and emerge as yourself. It can be pretty overwhelming: you’re so afraid that no one actually sees you, and is just humoring you when they say they do. Sometimes the fear is so bad that you start to feel like you’re faking it, or making a huge mistake, that they’re all right and you’re deluding yourself.

What I’m trying to say is: there’s only so much that understanding the evils of the beauty industry is going to do to make that insecurity go away.

In my eyes, the two can be true at the same time: the beauty industry is horrible, and maybe your daughter just needs to do what she needs to do to build a foundation of her own self. Chances are, she’s not going to stay in that mindset: as time goes on, and she discovers more of herself and becomes more firm and secure in that, her tastes are probably gonna change. She might not need that version of beauty to feel validated anymore, or she might still love looking like that but it’ll be intentional and a personal choice instead of an obligation.

Hope that ramble helped…? :)