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Started by Shana A, February 28, 2010, 12:17:51 PM

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Shana A

February 28, 2010, 12:17:51 PM
Gender Normative
Posted by helenboyd on 02/27/10 10:09 PM

http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2010/02/27/gender-normative/

I had a student tell me of a new terminology that seems to be making the rounds: gender normative privilege, which would be, of course, the privilege of normative gender over non-normative ones.

It may be the excellent response I have been looking for to contend with the way cisgender often seems to mean transphobic to some. What I've noticed is that this cissexual has "dyke" yelled at her out of car windows and my lovely partner does not. It's nice to have a word for her being normal, despite being trans, and me being odd, despite being cis.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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