“I am exactly who this is meant to be uplifting and I am appalled by it,” says Finn Buchanan, 21, a model and chef based in London, of the Costa Coffee mural showing a trans person with top surgery scars like his. “Monetising and marketing the scars of our treatments, fuelling discourse, and public scrutiny in the name of representation without securing access to [trans healthcare] does far more harm for trans people than good.”
Recently, Costa Coffee faced a boycott by anti-trans activists after the photo of one of the company’s vans, bearing an illustration of a trans person with top surgery scars, was posted on social media.
