I strongly disagree with this. Privilege doesn't care about the ontological truth of who you are; it's a fact about how society treats you. As a bisexual, I think... we actually CAN experience straight privilege in some cases. Like, a bisexual woman married to a man experiences straight privilege. That doesn't make her less bisexual, but it does mean that she can honeymoon anywhere she wants without having fear of being hate crimed. Any way you slice it, that's straight privilege. And look, I get it, if you don't like saying you have straight privilege becasue it isn't true that you're straight. You could say straight-passing privilege, if you prefer. But it's still privilege.
Trans men may or may not experience male privilege based on situation, and a trans man not experiencing male privilege does NOT challenge his identity as a man. Look, an early transition man who doesn't pass as cis is almost never going to experience male privilege. I say almost never because there are edge cases! Recruiters will probably have less bias against his resume for having a male name... but then again, when he shows up to the interview, transphobia / cissexism means he is way less likely to actually get the job compared to a cis male applicant. On the other hand, a trans man who passes as cis probably experiences male privilege in every aspect of his life.
Trans men experience misogony all the fucking time, and I think anyone who denies that is being ridicuolous. The fact that a person experiences misogny doesn't make them a woman, and it would be offensive to claim that a trans man who is talking about the misogyny he experienced is invalidating his gender because misogyny is for women. No, he's just talking about his lived experience. And its the same with male privilege. A trans man saying that he doesn't experience male privilege is NOT invalidating his gender, he's probably right.
So yeah, all men are not afforded a degree of privilege over all women on the axis of gender. You have to actually be percieved as a man for that to work, and as much as I would love for us to live in a world where trans men are all percieved as men, this is not true.
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