2010, William Wallace, "Cisinformation", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), 6 October 2010, page 10:
Because of this, the term tends to be fiercely resisted by people that don't like the idea that they've been given arbitrary privileges, or who feel that their being oppressed in other, non-trans related ways trumps their experiences of cis privilege.
Cis privilege is not only limited to what is entitled but also what is never even considered.
2017, Phoebe Maltz Bovy, The Perils of "Privilege": Why Injustice Can't Be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage (→ISBN), page 41:
from Urquhart's piece—“Occasionally, to my shame, I've even argued on the Internet about whether it makes any sense to say a butch like me has cis privilege”
2011, Zina Mustafa, "The oppressive power of language", The McGill Daily (McGill University), Volume 100, Issue 25, 3 March 2011, page 9:
Some of us may also have, among others, white privilege, cis-privilege, male privilege, or able-bodied privilege over the people around us.
2011, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life, Seal Press (2011), →ISBN, page 68:
There is a difference in power between how straight people realize romance versus non-heteronormative couples who often don't benefit from cis-privilege or even the ability to express their love legally, safely, or with freedom.
This particular research begins to engage with the ways in which cisprivilege is bound up with perpetuating violence (see the Cisgender Privilege Checklist; T-Vox, 2007).
Cisprivilege means never being asked if you are sure you’re in the right rest-room, never fearing that you’ll spend a night in a jail-cell after a routine traffic stop because your gender performance does not match your ID.
We will start with a basic (and brief) overview of trans-affirmative language, then move towards a discussion of cisprivilege, and end with a discussion of how to make our spaces more inclusive of all genders - from micro-level interactions to macro-level structural change.
