(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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males who preach 'the right way to be men' and their toxic masculinity that permeates every industry, so to be part of that privilege means you do perform it in some way, and if not you are gate kept and ostracized

when you deconstruct the patriarchal misogyny you find that trans women in fact dont
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