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[–]sisterinsomnia 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The concept of "cis" privilege is one that sorely needs "severe interrogation", because when used carelessly (which is often) it confuses total privilege with "cis" privilege so that some poor woman in Afghanistan would be more privileged tomorrow than Donald Trump if he decided to transition before the morning but she didn't.

Also, natal women and natal men are not equally privileged, but the focus on the imaginary cis-gategory disguises that. Not sure if folks know that "cis" definition includes requiring that someone identifies as a woman, say, without that identification being based on the sex of that person's female body? So one is privileged, because the identification just happens to coincide with the sex of the body. I doubt many people who are not trans have that kind of an identity at all, and if they do, it is probably based on the sex of the body and how others treat us because of our bodies. But the latter is not allowed.