"It's quite funny to me, to see the way that people turn on us and our identities [instead of] focusing on us as people. "There's value in giving girls their flowers, especially girls that are almost always mistreated. The focus of that whole situation should have been what we need to do to support one another, not creating some beef that was never there."
"I never want to be seen as a trans woman; I want to be seen as a woman whose story might be based off of her identity being trans, but that's not who I am. Having the conversation always be centered on my identity, sometimes it can take away from the point. It's important to hear and share stories, but existence for people, at least my position as a trans person, that in itself is a message."
Alex Consani and Anok Yai appear nude together on an Allure cover, embracing and locking eyes under the headline "Alex and Anok: A friendship laid bare." Consani, one of the first out trans models to walk the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show and a Model of the Year winner, said she no longer feels embarrassed about her identity. Consani responded to a supposed feud after her award by urging support for one another and saying people focus on identities instead of seeing individuals. She insisted she wants to be seen as a woman, not defined solely by being trans, and called existence as a trans person itself a message.
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