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[–]SnowAssMan[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Male privilege just means lack of sexism, which as the name suggests is based on sex. If the sex of a person is assumed to be female they may receive superficial sexism, but they can opt out of it any time they want, they choose not to, possibly because it isn't that bad & the fact that it's affirming is probably even soothing in a way. It's the difference between signing a contract & having a contract signed for you before you were born. At least you had a 'before' to compare the experience to.

Caitlyn Jenner is living off the largess of Bruce Jenner (not saying she is inexplicably stealth now, but you know what I mean, privilege can be far reaching). It's like if you started out rich, but then left that life to live on a farm or something. You're there because you fit in better there, it was your calling, but it was also your choice, despite it's drawbacks, which you had time to weigh up beforehand. It's like the difference between a sex worker who started at 14 out of economic desperation & a woman with a respectable degree deciding her true calling is sex work.

In your rape scenario the attack of a transgender person who passes might have been initiated because of sexism, but at some point they wouldn't pass anymore. If the attacker continues after finding out then can we be sure it wouldn't have happened had the victim not passed?

I've revised it to this (it's still under construction though):

• Transgender-males benefit from male privilege (like homophobia, transphobia does not offset male privilege), the ones who pass benefit from "cis privilege", meaning they are never more oppressed than women. Women in their natural, unfeminised state are “GNC” too

I've added this one since:

• Trans people prove that socialised gender > felt gender, otherwise they wouldn’t have to train themselves not to walk, talk, behave etc. in a gender-congruent way, nor would they have to put any effort in emulating others

And will probably add a version of this one (related to the socialised gender section):

• David Reimer was socialised a boy for the first 2 years of his life, then sexual abuse took its place under the guise of “re-socialisation”. So the only case purported to favour felt-gender theory, did the opposite. Conversely, the vast majority of infant males assigned female at birth & socialised accordingly did not desist

It's getting a bit too long at this point I think (it's over 1K words currently).