He is not seeing it. One thing that's very noticeable about conservatives, and specifically bigoted ones, is they act like all of society is some kind of luscious dessert where if a new group gets any, that somehow means that they themselves are getting less. Like that Hip Hop thread where someone was bringing up the fabled "black privilege."
Now I click on this thread and there is literally a dingbat suggesting that there's a such thing as "trans privilege." This is a plague of hierarchical thinking. These people cannot merely exist, and merely be visible. No no no, they're trying to get ahead of us!! They want what we have!! It reminds me of the character Danny revealing what he REALLY hates:
For a long time I just thought this was a bit misguided, but how he phrases it is a big key of hierarchical programming that allows for bigotry.
"I hate the fact that it's cool to be black these days..."
What does that really mean? He cant be talking about just white kids because white kids arent black. They can never be black. And what does "these days" mean? It means he would prefer to live in days where its NOT cool to be black.
Now replace "black" with "trans" and you have the stupid argument being made that people are becoming trans to "get ahead" just because there is a measurable effort among society to be nicer to them, which somehow means the bigot is missing out on something.