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4. Travesti Beauty Work and Power
The ethnographic work Beauty That Matters shows how travestis invest heavily in feminizing the body—through hormones and silicone—but not to become women. Instead, they aim for a highly eroticized version of femininity as insiders of a trans‑specific aesthetic community. In erotic contexts, that body is coded as powerful, desirable—and dominant

5. Self-Definition vs. Media Stereotypes
Cultural analysis indicates that media representations often caricature travestis as “violent, crazed, depraved” sex workers—stereotypes used to eroticize their supposed aggressive sexuality and dominance in contrast to cisgender women or gay men

note: disregard number 3 that seems like leftist horseshit.