The Cisgendered Programmer Privilege Checklist
key:
- (ft) full-time, living as your affirmed gender.
- (cl) Closet, attending work as your genetically determined gender.
Being cisgendered as a programmer, means:
- (ft) Not feeling like colleagues are constantly checking their gender pronouns around you.
- (ft) Not having to worry that being kept away from clients is because it would hurt the company image.
- (ft) You get to use a gender appropriate toilet without fear of having someone complain to HR.
- (cl) You get to use a toilet without feeling like you're in the wrong place.
- (cl/ft) Your company forms and policies have a category that fits your gender.
- (cl) If your company has a dress code, while arduous you wont feel like you are being forced into wrong-gendered clothing (suit pants, collared shirt and tie for men, blouse and business skirt for women), instead of being able to dress androgynously.
- (cl) As a cisgendered man in a workplace, you wont have to sit through misogynistic office humour and maintain composure while inside you are sick and crying, for fear of being ostracised by your all male team 'mates'.
- (cl) Men will not decide you are 'gay' and use the term in a derogatory sense behind your back.
- (cl/ft) You get to author/be credited for 'Privilege Checklists' using your regular ID without outing yourself.