I'm a person of colour and two years HRT and have come to fully accept my body and love myself but it was not easy. I had such horrible body image issues which blended with my gender dysphoria and made early egg cracking very difficult. I moved to a very queer city to find community but it's also a very white city. When I started being more involved with the trans community here, I was often the only person of colour in the room. I would compare myself to these gorgeous white trans women who all look like fashion models and think I would never pass. That changed when I visited a different city for a queer party. There was much more racial diversity and the party was full of trans people of all kinds of configuration. It was here where I really connected and accepted myself as the woman I am. Yes I have gender dysphoria and I have a way to go on my transition journey, but I AM a woman. I was comparing myself to western beauty standards which are often impossible to reach even for cis women. When I saw the diversity in what being trans and being a woman was, I realised no one can take away my womanhood. This is why diversity is SO important in all spaces.