Jenni Murray's transgender rant shows she's lost touch with reality and is plain wrong - Saira Khan

Ah yes, my male privilege of being called faggot, and a whole host of other terms. Such wonderful times to have gone to a Christian school, where the girls were so oppressed, that they could get away with whatever they wanted. Meanwhile, if I did anything, I was a punished. Everyone in my class save for one student bullied me constantly. So much privilege I experienced.

Maybe they would say I experienced in other areas. The fact that people assumed by how I dressed, and my personality that I was unintelligent was surely privilege. The fact that people assume me to be more intelligent now after I've transitioned just shows how much privilege I was benefiting from in the past. Doesn't it. I just can't believe how much I benefited under the patriarchy.

Oh, and let's not forget the privilege money I had. My family may have been poor. But obviously I was privileged financially somehow.

The abuse I felt at home. The having to pee out my window, because I was afraid my brother would beat me if I came out. So privileged. The fact that he wasn't punished for whipping me in front my mom, or when he blugened me in the head, but when I complained for being refused the opportunity to get water one night, I was told they would take me to jail. They drove me past it threatening to send me there with tears in my eyes. I didn't know then they couldn't send me there without reason. I was terrified. My terror shows how privileged I was.

Oh the good and privileged life I lived. If I only I knew struggle, maybe then I could be a woman.

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