Many shitlords send me PM’s telling me sober privilege isn’t a thing and that I and my fellow trans sobers are just alcoholics and that we should get professional help and such.  Having never been trans sober, they are impervious to the knowledge of their own privilege, so I am making a sober privilege check list in an attempt to educate you, even though it’s not my job to do so.

This is a response to sober privilege deniers

• If you’ve never been denied entry on a flight because you are too “drunk” to fly, you have sober privilege
• If you can go into public without fear of spending a night in the drunk tank, you have sober privilege
• If you can go to your regular bar without the bartender rolling their eyes and acting standoffish because you often get “too drunk” while enjoying their establishment, you have sober privilege
• If you can go to a Dr. and have them treat your actual conditions, rather than just tell you that you need to stop drinking, you have sober privilege
• If you aren’t told that you are a bad example to you children just because your BAC has to be a little higher than most peoples (mine being .22 for optimum health), you have sober privilege
• If you don’t live in fear of your children being taken away from you by the state just because you’re at your optimum BAC most of the day, you have sober privilege 
• If you aren’t in fear of losing your job because of your medically necessary BAC level, you have sober privilege
• Basically, if you are treated as a respectable human being instead of being viewed and treated as some freak show, then you have sober privilege.

Feel free to add any examples you can think of

12:57 pm  •  3 July 2014  •  3 notes