Note on one blog which I'm not linking to because I was not impressed:
I'm pretty damn sure there *is* such a think as cisgender privilege, regardless if one is born a man or a woman (male or female, whichever term is correct.) While I, as a woman living the U.S. (most of the time), may be discouraged, harassed, and subjected to violence, relatively few people are going to take in upon themselves to erase me from existence through violence, which does happen to trans people. Note that "trans panic" is a defense accepted occasionally in courts for murder, whereas there is no "woman panic" corollary.
Now, I'm up for debate on what "cisgendered privilege" actually means. Another blog (from the opposite view, obviously) made the argument that a cis woman who tells a trans woman "You're so lucky to not have a period," is exercising cisgender privilege. As for many women, this statement translates to, "You're so lucky to not have monthly depression and intense pain," I would say that calling this "privilege" is bullshit.
[Maybe the wording is, in fact, problematic, because it could also simply be taken to mean, "You're lucky to have not been born a woman," and therefore, "WhyTF are you trying to be a woman now." But. . . in my experience, most women do not hate men for not having the "period experience." More frequently they hate their own bodies for betraying them. So, to people suffering from different struggles: Try to be compassionate.
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