Miriam, Crowdfunding Witch on Nostr: the problem with "trans girls grew up with male privilege" is not that the argument ...
the problem with "trans girls grew up with male privilege" is not that the argument is reductive (even tho it is), it's that the understanding of "male privilege" that undergirds the argument is *profoundly* reductive. Privilege is messy af, hugely contextual, and of highly variable and unreliable utility. To say that a whole class of people "have" privilege as some sort of blanket state of being completely misrepresents how privilege itself operates.
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