On Wednesday, gay conservative journalist Chadwick Moore criticized the historic primary win of Vermont gubernatorial candidate Christine Hallquist — who became the first transgender major party nominee for governor of a U.S. state Tuesday.
Moore said, essentially, that Hallquist won because she has “transgender privilege.”
“She can get away with many, many things simply by being transgender,” Moore told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night. “I mean, who knows if that's even how she won this primary.”
Since then, there have been a number of Twitter messages (tweets) to clarity just what @transgenderprivilege is like for many of us. I’ve selected a few that reflect personal experience of myself and my friends.
#transgenderprivilege is being told by cisgender people that they hate the "sound" of the word cisgender and that it shouldn't be applied to them (when they really hate the idea that they can be "marked" or labeled as something other than "normal").
#transgenderprivilege is stepping out in front of a moving semi truck on a lonely Ohio highway because it seems the only way to escape the emotional pain and conversion therapy forced on you by "loving" parents.
#transgenderprivilege is finding creative ways to cover your necessary medical expenses because cisgender people think they are unnecessary, cosmetic, or harmful.
#transgenderprivilege is losing friends who have been a part of your life for decades, because you come out as transgender and you are now no longer acceptable to be their friend.
#transgenderprivilege is being told you're just doing this to have sex with men, or that you're just doing this to rape lesbian women, or that you're just doing this to get into the restroom with somebody's wife or daughter.
#TransgenderPrivilege is being treated like a woman until you try to talk about your oppression and suddenly you pass as a man and all your problems are gone
#transgenderprivilege is hearing the stories of unsuccessful suicide attempt from friends because of their suffering while trying to act in the roles society forced on them and their fear of what would happen if they came out, but being happy they survived to tell their story.
#TransgenderPrivilege is wondering if this will be the last time you leave the house alive.
#TransgenderPrivilege is being told you're confused, and do not deserve to breathe.
#TransgenderPrivilege is having your will written at 27 because the world hates you.
#transgenderprivilege is dressing down, taking off your makeup, and nail color, so when you enter a gas station on your road trip you won’t be murdered.
#transgenderprivilege is having to go through agonizing, expensive surgery to feel comfortable in your body and then having to hear everyone call you a “fake” woman because of it.
#TransgenderPrivilege is people suddenly starting to use the wrong pronouns for you as soon as they learn you're trans, even though they never had a problem gendering you correctly before.
#Transgenderprivilege is walking across the street and hoping that MAGA hat wearing person in the F250 doesn't decide to run you down.
#TransgenderPrivilege is having respiratory issues for the rest of your life and a higher chance to develop pneumonia because you could not stand your chest and used a binder.
#TransgenderPrivilege is being twelve years old and a local man openly discusses with friends killing you and field dressing you.
#TransgenderPrivilege Is having people make interminable speeches about what good allies they are, when all you really want is for them to ask how you are, or just say, "You look happy."
#transgenderprivilege is going to a funeral only to see her deadnamed, misgendered and made up to look like a man in the casket.
#TransgenderPrivilege is being terrified to use either bathroom. Worrying that this time is the time you get clocked. Being stuck in a busy bathroom because you're waiting for the room to empty to leave safely.
#transgenderprivilege is having the only "holiday" for trans people to be about how many of us got killed last year.
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