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View submission: Trans Women, Male Privilege, and the Intersectionality of Patriarchal Oppression
There's a lot here, and I honestly can't respond to even most of it. Current events have kinda reduced my capacity for in-depth discussion with strangers like that - sorry.
I think your heart is in the right place, but your analysis here is a bit... simplistic? Primarily around concepts like privilege and oppression and socialization. These things aren't on / off binaries, they exist in degrees, and are unevenly applied to individuals depending on time and place.
I feel like you would really enjoy reading some transfeminist literature, if you haven't already? Julia Serano wrote a piece a few years back titled "Why are AMAB trans people denied the closet?", which I think intersects with some of your thoughts on male privilege and socialization.
And Talia Bhatt recently wrote two excellent essays, titled "The Third Sex" and "Degendering and Regendering".
I can also highly recommend basically anything by Jules Gill-Peterson.
There's nothing here!