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[–]DistantGlimmer[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I do agree that it is different for trans people who actually pass most of the time as their desired gender. Like I don't think it's total. Transmen still face issues around things like medical care relating to their female anatomy and transwomen will always have vestiges of male privilege based on socialization and upbringing but I can accept that being perceived as a woman will result in a certain amount of sexism while being perceived as a man may confer certain advantages socially.

My question is more addressing the strictly QT idea (as opposed to a more transmedicalist one) that people are strictly oppressed based on gender identity. If this is true than it should be possible for a woman to simply opt-out of oppression by not identifying as a woman which as you say it obviously isn't. We hear a lot from QT types that dysphoria is not required to be trans and passing is not required to be trans but how will a "masculine transwoman" be treated as anything other than a man if that is how most people will perceive them? You recognize sex-based oppression as a thing which happens but many transactivists do not. Anyway, thank you for responding.