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Using “privilege” to nail down transfeminized debt is the progressive-sounding, feminist or social justice way of collecting transfeminized debt. People will bend over backwards to come up with an oppression-theory way to say we have a huge privilege that we need to pay back. Lo and behold, the way we’re expected to pay it back is through the thankless labor and deference that is already expected of us by all of society, cis and trans As soon as feminist, queer, and social justice environments find the tools to justify demanding the transfeminized labor they already feel entitled to from us, they use them. An important part of this is that it isn’t just labor they want from us, it’s DEFERENCE. As a result: constant narration of transfems as defiant, aggressive, grossly entitled, untrustworthy, arrogant, “taking up space.” All ways of saying we lack deference