Artist Statement

 

The transsexual community has long been marginalized by mainstream culture. Even LGB rights organizations have historically cast transgender issues aside while they secure their own legal protections.

 

We Are Women is a series of photographs featuring transsexual women that tastefully and elegantly illustrate the unique beauty of a body undergoing gender change. To those outside the transsexual community, this work will help to demystify transsexual women through imagery that shows trans women’s femininity while in their most vulnerable states.

 

This visual exploration comes at a time when transgender equality movements are just beginning to gain public attention. These photographs allow the subjects to visually join the conversation about the definition of transgender women while lawmakers discuss matters of transgender equality.