As some of you may have realized, I am all about talking back to privilege. Check out this post at Questioning Transphobia on cissexual privilege. I wasn’t sure what to quote, since all of it is important.
Cissexual privilege is the privilege of having a body that matches the sex your brain expects. Cissexual privilege is the privilege of having a body that matches what society expects. Cissexual privilege is the assumption that your sex, your gender are superior and more valid than trans people’s sex and gender, that you have the right to tell trans people who and what they really are, what their motives are for transitioning, to deny that their most basic realities are false because you cannot imagine how they can be true.
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Transphobia is the exercise of that privilege.
It is a thought (and hopefully action)-provoking post, and I think those of us who are cissexual need to absorb what has been said and try to recognize the transphobia in our lives (and do something about it!). Not enough of us listen. We only harp on about what we think we know about trans people, because we feel it is our right, or don’t pay attention at all, and our complacency allows all forms of violence against trans people to occur over and over again.
I perhaps focused more on the active privileges that people exert without emphasising the fact that society sends these messages and everyone picks them up.
Thank you for the link. :)