Tim Gunn is still wrong

I like Tim Gunn. Sometimes, he puts his foot too far into his mouth, but he's never malicious and he's been a advocate of healthy body types and a pretty vocal critic of the fashion industry's history of promoting only very thin bodies, but he's wrong about trans models. Or at least very misguided.

The comments he made in a Huffington Post interview from February resurfaced last week after model Andreja Pejic (formerly Andrej Pejic) came out as trans. In that interview, Gunn said, "I’m conflicted. On one hand, I don’t want to say that because you were a man and now you’re a woman, you can’t be in a women’s fashion show. But I feel it’s a dicey issue. The fact of the matter is, when you are transgender — if you go, say, male to female — you’re not having your pelvis broken and having it expanded surgically. You still have the anatomical bone structure of a man.” Not necessarily. HRT changes fat distribution, and depending on when someone transitions, trans women's bodies can still be within the parameters of cis women's, or cis models' bodies, who tend to be very thin anyway. By championing "normal" women's bodies, he left out a whole host of "normal."