damn, do I look great now, and I feel even better. I feel like the body I have is finally mine, and as my brain has slowly changed, it's like I can think and feel as myself as well.
It took me over 30 years to get to this point, and I am extremely proud of myself.Commodification is the process whereby something abstract is made to seem like an object.
So, when I say before-and-afters commodify folks, what I mean is that the comparison reduces who they are and everything they've done to what you can see in a couple of images. Pictures tell a story, powerfully, but they can't tell you everything.