Journalist Chadwick Moore, who identifies as a gay conservative, tried to play down Christine Hallquist ’ s historic victory in the Vermont democratic gubernatorial primary by saying she had “ " transgender privilege ” on the Tucker Carlson program on Fox news on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, Hallquist became the first openly transgender person to ever be nominated by a major political party for a Governor ’ s race.

Moore was a guest on the Tucker Carlson show along with Robin Biro, a former Obama campaign official. Here is Moore ’ s statement from the broadcast:

“ You ' re absolutely right to acknowledge [Christine] Hallquist ' s transgender privilege. She can get away with many, many things simply by being transgender. I mean, who knows if that ' s even how she won this primary. But while the entire country is fixated on the fact that she ' s transgender, nobody knows anything about her policies. In fact, all we know … Yeah, you know that she ' s for Medicaid for all, she ' s a climate alarmist, she believes in $15 minimum wage and that ' s kind of it. ”

Watch the clip from the Tucker Carlson show:

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LGBTQ+ advocates quickly sounded off on the statement as Halliquist had been campaigning in Vermont for months and won by a large margin of votes.

Members of the transgender community quickly took to Twitter to respond, resulting in the #TransgenderPrivilege hastag.

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Check out the entire #TransgenderPrivilege feed on Twitter.