It's a lot more fun and productive to shut idiots down by pointing out the logical flaws and/or hypocrisy in their statements :3

Sure - if that helps any. I'm cis-gendered and I consider myself born to be a woman. I started as a girl.

<3 keep writing hun, you're excellent.

It sounds like there was a very healthy dose of cis privilege in a lost of the response.

Back when I was young and in shape, I could pass for a boy. I never tried to pass for a boy, never wanted to, but I realized I could based on being mistaken for a boy several times.

Ding ding ding! We all know how incredibly stupid and frustrating it is when a guy comes in and says "well sometimes that happens to men, so quit trying to be special!"

this was so incredible and so on point. you're always incredibly articulate with regards to minutia, pointing out small microaggressions and really pointing them out for what they are- all the instances of male entitlement. excellent, heartbreaking and you have my love and total respect <3

Oh most definitely, that's a very valid point! I'm sorry if my wording caused any confusion, and for any offense that distinction might have caused. Thank you!

NO WE HAVE TO ALWAYS TALK ABOUT CISWOMEN ME ME ME ME ME ME ME!!!!!

Augh. This is pretty defeating. I really hate that this is the reality you have to deal with. I'm so sorry.
Patriarchy is such bullshit.

I don't have much to add except to say thanks for sharing your experience. I think, as a trans woman, you have a unique exposure to street harassment experience because, as you've explained, you've experienced it while presenting both male and female. It can't be easy to share these experiences but I'd like to thank…

i was *just* about to add that... i mean every time i turn on the news, there's a story about some cisgender man getting his knickers in a twist because he *discovers* the woman he is with "is a man" (their language, not mine, of course) and that resulting in violence or death. i am seeing many of these in relation to…

I'm pointing to a pervasive pattern of behavior. I chose three very recent examples and described one example from eight years ago. I could choose others from a great many. As has been pointed out by several commenters, this isn't a contest. It's to illustrate a point. I know plenty of cisgender women without…

I feel the need to point out that trans women suffer so much violence for not only being women but also when they get "found out" and they get additional transphobia lumped on top. I'm cis and my sister is trans and I worry so much more for her safety than me own.

More importantly the author went out of her way to…

A lecherous man grabbed your ass and then you felt threatened by him because you are transgender? An angry man also = dead ciswoman.

Yes, all Asians. Ever. Everywhere. We all do it.

I mean, on one hand I get what you are saying - women don't ever get a break. But on the other hand the author clearly states that she realizes that, which I think is the gold standard of acknowledging her (past) privilege.

And you know what? I'm a ciswoman living in Japan and I have only had two incidents in the time…

they happened because you are female.

Oppression olympics, cissplaining... you're just trying to hit all the obnoxiousness marks, aren't you?

I acknowledge this, and I acknowledged it. I have never, not ever refused to acknowledge the male privilege I was granted. As I said before, privilege is privilege, even if it is unwanted, and even if it comes at the intersection of lacking a different privilege (cisgender privilege). My lack of cisgender privilege is…