University of Oregon Denounces Having Clothes That Fit as “Cisgender Privilege”

If your clothes fit, then hang your head in shame. You are indulging in cisgender privilege:

The University of Oregon has a separate site for their libraries. Included in this separate site are “research guides” to help students understand topics that the university has deemed important. One such research guide is “Transgender Studies & Cisgender Privilege.”

The guide directs students to a checklist of cisgender privileges.

Included on the list are: “6. Clothing works for me, more or less. I am a size and shape for which clothes I feel comfortable wearing are commonly made” and “23. My potential lovers expect my genitals to look roughly similar to the way they do, and have accepted that before coming to bed with me.”

Readers who are guilty of enjoying these privileges can do penance by wearing ill-fitting clothes and denouncing their own cis-normative oppressiveness in the strongest possible terms.

Other resources made available by the University of Oregon make it clear that whiteness and capitalism are as intolerable as cisgender privilege.

On a tip from J.