Caitlyn Jenner is planning a nude photo shoot in Sports Illustrated. It is the fortieth anniversary of the medal she won in the 1976 Olympics. She a gold medal for the decathlon at the Montreal Summer Games.
Jenner came out as a woman last year with her now-iconic cover of Vanity Fair magazine, and she received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs.
Even though she is transgender, she still is spouting Republican views. I don’t know how she could possibly stay with a party that hates her and others like her. I’m just absolutely baffled by that.
She had this to say about Hillary Clinton during the premiere of her reality show, “I Am Cait”:
“It’s the last place I want to be, but I’m open. We need both sides, and if we’re unfortunate enough get Hillary as our next president, we need her on our side. Although she won’t be — she couldn’t care less about women. She cares about herself.”
This is not the strangest part. She actually supported “traditional marriage” in an interview on the Ellen show.
How can she be a woman and a misogynist? She even referred to trans women as “a man in a dress.” She implied that only people who pass as the opposite sex can be transgender. Here is the full comment:
“I think it’s much easier for a trans woman or a trans man who authentically kind of looks and plays the role. So what I call my presentation. I try to take that seriously. I think it puts people at ease. If you’re out there and, to be honest with you, if you look like a man in a dress, it makes people uncomfortable.”
While I am thrilled at the inclusion of transgender women by magazines like Sports Illustrated, Caitlyn Jenner as the representative for transgender women is not exactly the best choice.
Featured image by Alberto Frank via Flickr, available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
