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2026-05-06 05:42 UTC

@revoluciana@chaosfem.tw Broadly speaking, no, pre-transition trans women do not have male privilege, at least not in the way cis white men do. But also, white privileged, male privilege, passing privilege and things of that nature are instantaneous and situational. You may have some boost in one context in one moment and be abused for who you are in the next. Are there aspects of my life which were improved by a couple decades of people taking me more seriously because they thought I was a white dude? Yes. Am I now spending all that money on therapy because I’m so fucked up from what playing that role cost me? Also yes. I don’t really think it’s a binary thing that you have or don’t. It’s intersectional.

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@revoluciana@chaosfem.tw 2026-05-06 06:00

@faithisleaping@anarres.family absolutely intersectional and agreed on all of this except for the part here where some aspect was improved because of supposed male privilege, but the point is that you aren't a man, you paid for that so-called privilege through sacrifice. If a cis woman sacrificed in order to get the same thing, we wouldn't say that she was experiencing male privilege. We would say she sacrificed to get it. Trans women have to sacrifice who they are in order to get so called privilege. But we don't say that she sacrificed, we say that she had male privilege. Because it's not afforded to her because she's male, it's afforded to her because of the sacrifices that she made in order to be perceived as male, to be acceptable within that context, even if only for survival.

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@Tattie@eldritch.cafe 2026-05-06 07:40

@faithisleaping@anarres.family came here to say, well, basically exactly what you did. I feel I had some privileges that the cis women around me didn't, in certain situations. They also had privileges that I, a closeted trans woman, didn't. Similarly, since coming out and transitioning I've noticed a complex shift of privileges. On the whole tho I feel that the primary privilege I gained— of living as my authentic self— is more fundamental and valuable to me than all the ones I've lost by moving thru life as a woman. @revoluciana@chaosfem.tw

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