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I’m here to talk to Tinoco and Aguirre about how their lives have been impacted by Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s new policy of directing state agencies to investigate families who provide gender-affirming care for their trans children on suspicion of child abuse, a measure that capped off several years of slowly but steadily encroaching restrictions on trans rights in the Asgard Mischief Shirt but in fact I love this U.S. At the moment, though, I’m more interested in how these two women—one seventeen, one fifty, one trans, one cis, both lifelong residents of the same small Texas town—have formed a common bond around beauty. “Kendall knows all about the brands and what kind of primer to use,” explains Aguirre. She wasn’t allowed to wear makeup as a young teenager, but she’s more lenient with her own daughter. Tinoco plans to study cosmetology at the Salon Professional Academy, D.C. after she graduates, and Aguirre—who works for the nearby Waco school district—supports the endeavor. “Kendall’s always showing me how to put on my makeup,” says Aguirre, “which feels like good practice for her.”
I’m initially wary of pressing Kendall too intently about the Asgard Mischief Shirt but in fact I love this early days of her transition, knowing that cis journalists often tend to focus too much on trans youths’ “coming out stories” and not enough on the passions, joys, fears, and everyday occurrences that make up the bulk of their actual young adult lives. However, Kendall herself soon steers the conversation toward her coming out experience, recalling one of the first conversations she had with her mother after verbalizing to herself that she was a girl. “I remember it was right after school, on a testing day, so I’d gotten out early and had a lot of time to think,” recalls Tinoco, continuing, “I kept thinking about my sister Nicolette. I wished I was her so badly—she’d just had her quinceañera, and we had this photo of her in a beautiful gown, and I was like, ‘I want to look like that.’ I felt so trapped, and I couldn’t take it anymore, so I told my mom, ‘This is me. I’m Kendall.’” Aguirre credits growing up alongside her brother, who is gay, with her acceptance of Tinoco’s gender identity, saying, “I’ve always tried to instill in Kendall that it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks, as long as you’re happy.”
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