New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she considers herself 'privileged' for not having to deal with the trauma of being transgender. Then she called herself a 'cisgender' woman, using a term that means someone whose gender identity matches the one they were born with. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she considers herself 'privileged' for not having to deal with the trauma of being transgender'Almost every single person this country can acknowledge some privilege of some type, you know? I’m a cisgender woman,' said Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described Democratic socialist who won election stressing her working-class struggles tending bar. 'If you’ve never experienced different treatment in your life, you wouldn’t know what different treatment feels like or looks like,' she said.

Source: Daily Mail February 01, 2019 23:41 UTC