A rework of a graph I came up with a long time ago that describes my idea of gendered privilege vs oppression.
The idea I am trying to express here is that trans people typically start transition in the "bad [assigned label]" category and then drop down to the gender failure zone. Those few who are very lucky can eventually come out on the other side in the "bad [other label]" category. But nobody makes it to the top, and most still stay in the gender failure zone.
I think it explains some phenomena rather well, like all trans people regardless of identity being affected by all types of transphobia, or conditional male privilege that a certain narrow sector of western trans men is talking about. It also differentiates between the concepts of the bottom of the hierarchy and an underclass of womanhood.
I still feel like the graph is lacking in certain aspects, because I like the terminology "good man" vs "bad man", but I need to make it more clear somehow that it refers to social roles rather than gender identities.
Has anyone ever coined a term that refers to being judged by norms of a certain gender, rather than identifying as that gender?
Side note, I am aware of the work by Nora Hikari, but I don't consider mine to be a branch off of hers. We make some different conclusions (e.g. 5 categories vs 3, or her directly calling hers "genders", while I'm trying to avoid it) and plus, I started working on mine around 2020-2021.
