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My Terrible Bargain: Passing Privilege

Started by Natasha, September 11, 2009, 04:59:08 PM

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September 11, 2009, 04:59:08 PM
My Terrible Bargain: Passing Privilege

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/09/my-terrible-bargain-passing-privilege.html
by Shaker Kaninchenzero
9/10/09

To use it in a sentence: "A trans person who easily moves in cis society with hir preferred gender presentation has passing privilege." For a given value of easily. Some trans people have it, other's don't. The burly woman in a wig and a dress and badly-applied makeup that doesn't hide her heavy five o'clock shadow that is the endlessly hilarious TV version of a trans woman that breaks my heart every single time I see it? Does not have passing privilege. Hedwig, in the eponymous Angry Inch, has more.

I personally have tons and have since forever. I don't think anyone here has met me in person yet, but there are pictures. I have had no trans-related surgeries, some electrolysis, and don't wear makeup because I mostly can't be bothered to. It was fun at first and I do on special occasions but these days it's another chore I don't have the energy to do and frankly as long as I feel ->-bleeped-<-ty I'd like to look kind of ->-bleeped-<-ty too. (Also I have rosacea but it's not the reason I don't wear makeup.)
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