The theory assumes that trans girls are just like cis boys (or trans women are just like cis men) until transition, like the outward state of being male reflects an inner state of being a boy or man, and so a trans woman's experience of male privilege is necessarily identical to a cis man's experience of male privilege and please don't talk about passing privilege at all.
And, ah hell, another story about a trans woman that refers to her by her birth name. wtf. (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/30/BA37138V7V.DTL) Yes, in this instance, she's the criminal, but that's no excuse.
As usual, most of the comments in that article are horrific. Makes me wonder how many people I see on the streets here in SF think so poorly of people like me.
You know, people tell me "I don't know how you can wade through the stuff you do to write what you write" and I really really really can't stomach those comment threads. :(
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The theory assumes that trans girls are just like cis boys (or trans women are just like cis men) until transition, like the outward state of being male reflects an inner state of being a boy or man, and so a trans woman's experience of male privilege is necessarily identical to a cis man's experience of male privilege and please don't talk about passing privilege at all.
And, ah hell, another story about a trans woman that refers to her by her birth name. wtf. (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/30/BA37138V7V.DTL) Yes, in this instance, she's the criminal, but that's no excuse.
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I don't even read comments in articles about trans people. The people who post them are evil.
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And click thumbs-down on every single evil one.
Maybe I should follow your advice.
I assume any cis person I don't know is a transphobic asshole.
I usually assign them into provisional "likely asshole" and "likely well-meaning but ignorant" groups.
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OTOH, it's pretty easy to get out of the "transphobic asshole" category!
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Strange how I once though SF was more liberal than that. o.O
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Sympathies.