The only thing being trans (whether you prefer transsexual or transgender as a descriptor) means is that you are trans. It doesn’t imply membership in some sort of family, politics or religion.
I think perhaps the bright lights of fame and notoriety have blinded Jennifer Boylan to the evil embraced by Caitlyn Jenner.
I may consider myself a member of some sort of nebulous LGBT community, albiet it more so as a lesbian than as part of my past history of having had SRS, butI don’t feel that either Milo or Caitlyn are part of the same community I feel I am part of.
From The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/opinion/sunday/caitlyn-jenners-mission.html
Jennifer Finney Boylan
Feb. 11, 2017
Donald Trump’s inauguration was devoid of stars. Elton John said no. Justin Timberlake cried the president a river. The event was barren of A-listers. Except for one.
There she was, Caitlyn Jenner, in an off-the-shoulder navy gown, cheering on the new president. “Republicans need help understanding L.G.B.T.Q. issues,” she tweeted. “And I’m here to help!”
There are times when I feel like my friendship with Caitlyn is one unending Thanksgiving dinner, with me always fleeing the table in tears. But I do believe that if we’re all going to survive the next four years, we have to learn not only how to talk with one another, but to listen.
Listening is no easy thing. When I spent six weeks on a bus last year with Caitlyn as part of her reality show’s road trip, I asked her how she could possibly be a Republican. She replied, “Every conservative guy out there believes in everybody’s rights.” I shouted back, “That is a lie!” Then I hit her with a rolled-up newspaper, demonstrating exactly how bad I am at the whole listening thing.
There is, and ought to be, room for a wide range of identities within the L.G.B.T. movement. But how can queer people side with the party that has devoted much of the last quarter-century to demonizing us and opposing our rights?
As a friend once observed, queer Republicans remind him of “the pig in the chef’s hat and apron holding a fork and knife on the front of a sign for a barbecue joint.” Surely that pig must know that things aren’t going to end well.
But Caitlyn isn’t alone. According to Gallup, 21 percent of L.G.B.T. Americans are or lean Republican.
The Trump administration claims it supports gay and trans rights, as evidenced by its decision last month to preserve Barack Obama’s workplace protections. “The president is proud to have been the first ever G.O.P. nominee to mention the L.G.B.T.Q. community in his nomination acceptance speech,” a White House statement said.
On the other hand, this consistently inconsistent president has also said that he would “strongly consider” appointing a Supreme Court justice who would rescind the nation’s marriage equality laws. And he may get his wish with Judge Neil Gorsuch. He sided with Hobby Lobby in a case that began with a fight over contraception coverage but ended at the Supreme Court with a ruling that could ultimately allow any business to discriminate against gay and trans people on the basis of religion. (A leaked draft of an executive order endorsed this same policy.) And in 2009, Judge Gorsuch rejected a transgender woman’s claim that she was forced out of her job in violation of federal law.
Continue reading at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/opinion/sunday/caitlyn-jenners-mission.htm
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02/22/2017 at 8:19 pm
Hey Caitlyn Jenner or Bruce Jenner, those child molesting righteous high moral republican believers of GAWD (the same GAWD that Pharisees believed in) have made it clear that it’s only alright if rich folks are gay, lesbian or transgender. But hey you and those rich folks are going to get tax breaks galore so I guess you made it easier for regular folks at least foreign visa workers that republicans hire to keep real Americans wages low. But let’s build that wall so Trump and your rich buddies can be the only ones getting cheap foreign labor. Bout time republicans triple the national debt again like Reagan(900 billion to 3 trillion=2 trillion debt), lend their kinfolks and buddies 1 trillion dollars in no payback loans like SNL or start another 5 trillion dollar war or crash the economy and require another 3 trillion in bailouts and jump starts to get the economy out of the ditch, then blame the president with the least new spending since Eisenhower for that big ole debt. That’s 11 Trillion of wasted money on the rich and getting folks killed for profit plus interest brought to you buy republicans. There is nothing Christian or fiscally conservative about a republican. Keep pouring wealth down the throats of the rich and maybe one day they will throw up and rain down money all over working folks. Yeah right.