#cis privilege

How you sound right now:

Yes, having things you don't go through that other people do is a privilege dynamic. Privilege is often described as "obstacles one group of people face that you do not". I don't really care how you personally define privilege; the rest of the world disagrees with you. Privilege also makes it so you can't see the challenges other people face; their burdens are invisible to you. You see YOUR burden clearly, but you can't visualize anyone else suffering.

And yes, cis women are discriminated against in all those fields. I picked them on purpose. Yes, cis women face challenges in those situations - but trans people face ADDITIONAL challenges cis women do not, based on the fact that they are trans.

The same thing goes for black women vs white women, by the way. They're both women, but the white woman will have privileges the black woman does not.

And so yes, cis women have advantages trans people do not have.

Imagine a cis woman and a trans woman are going to the bathroom in Florida. The cis woman gets to pee; the trans woman is arrested. That is cis privilege. Imagine a cis woman and a trans woman are applying for an apartment. The trans woman is rejected specifically because she's trans, but the cis woman is not. That is cis privilege.

Imagine a trans man and a cis woman both go to the gynecologist. The cis woman goes into the waiting room, is gendered correctly by staff, is not dead named, is not stared at, and is not refused coverage by her insurance because her gender and her sex are congruent and pap smears are considered necessary for females.

The trans man walks in and is told he's in the wrong place. He corrects the staff quietly, informing them he is a trans man. The nurse at the desk looks at his id and his paperwork and deadnames him and misgenders him. He sits down and is given dirty looks while he waits. The nurse calls him back by his dead name a few minutes later. The doctor asks him intrusive and inappropriate questions while performing his pap smear. He finally leaves, relived the ordeal is over. But it's not - because a few weeks later he gets a letter from his insurance. They've denied to cover the procedure because pap smears are for females, and his paperwork says he's male.

I'll add image ID later because making this drained me so much

Anyways, this isn't calling out anyone, it's just something I was thinking about the other day