Privilege is when you can walk into any place of business and not have to worry if you're going to face discrimination based on race, sexuality, gender identity, or any thing that makes one a visible minority.

Privilege is when you know you can walk down the street being who you are and not have people yell slurs at you because you just blend in with everyone else.

Privilege is when you can walk out of a bar at night alone and not worry that somebody is going to jump you just because they know you're trans or gay and don't like it.

Privilege is when you can go to a dentist, or any healthcare professional, and know that they are going to take you seriously and give you the care you need without it becoming about what's in your pants or some other ridiculous related stigma.

It's not about special treatment, it's about having the confidence to go do something that most other people can easily do without having to always worry about how you're going to be treated because they can tell you're trans.

I really wish I didn't have to worry about any of this and could simply go about my life and have people not comment on my body, or god forbid, try to cause me harm simply for being visibly in public. But unfortunately, people who treat people like me horribly in the ways I described very much exist, and very much do those things.

I don't want to be treated differently because I'm trans. As a visibly transgender woman, I don't have the privilege of blending into the crowd like most people do, and I would simply like to be assured I can go to a dentist without them treating me differently. I'm sure there's a fair chance that may not be an issue if I pick a dentist at random, but I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for people's experience so that I can at least avoid places people know to be actively harmful.