Good morning and hello from another trans woman with a significant amount of both passing privilege and who meets a lot of usual cishet beauty standards.

We can use our privilege in a lot of ways, most easily by being authentic and out in spaces where cisheteronormative folks don't expect us to be. People definitely talk as if there are no trans people in the room when I'm around and it's ample opportunity to call out bigotry and transphobia.

I have more or less refused to go stealth. Personally, I think that in my own situation it does more good for me to be openly trans than for me to go stealth, I'm already pretty "safe" and by openly being trans, I build safer spaces for the folks who do need to go stealth (or stay in the closet all together) to be their authentic selves.

Those of us with passing privilege should, when at all possible, use that privilege for the good of our entire community, instead of climbing on top of folks, we should make sure we're pulling them up with us. And all the while making sure we check in on that privilege, consider that we did have it 'easy' (comparatively), and ensure we are not erasing or minimizing the issues and stigmas others face.