So I see a lot of reposts saying "I never had male privilege" so let me address that because I both agree and disagree with you.

I never had it in the sense that I was never able to "perform male" worth a damn, so I never got that benefit. B/C no I wasn't accepted by the boys but

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as a trans dude i can tell you, anyone who says they never had male privilege if full of fucking shit, you just don't notice the ocean when you've been living in your whole life 🤘
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I thought of a way to sum this up since I posted this, and I get a lot of fems would agree

I absolutely had male privilege, I just wasn't designed right to properly take advantage of it

Cause if I hadn't? Losing it wouldn't have been such a striking experience
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(2/2) I DID have that privilege in my daily interactions. Treated as male (painful as that was) day to day had advantages. Job opportunities, pay, safety etc. Or just being taken seriously. I work in tech and never had my knowledge questioned until I transitioned.

So yeah I see it both ways.
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then i think you should ask some trans women of colour about their experience

some women genuinely do not have the privilege either way because racism and sexism work on the same axis of denying someones personhood based on an immutable part of their identity

males can be treated like women by
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