For example, people with naturally afro hair who choose to permanently alter the texture of their hair into styles more accepted by Eurocentric beauty standards may gain social advantages over their peers natural ones that are very similar to privileges (such as preferential treatment in job interviews). It could be argued that such individuals have earned these privileges at the cost of not having been granted them by birthright. Another example of acquired privilege would be advocates of gender confirmation surgery and other cosmetic surgeries to achieve a cisgender male appearance, thus acquiring male privilege. It is unclear, however, whether the more relevant privileges at play are the financial and social capabilities needed to afford such surgeries versus transgender people who would undergo such surgeries if they had the financial resources or social support to perform them. In this way, privilege is multivalent, which represents one of the many difficulties social science researchers encounter in defining, identifying, and studying