Caitlyn Jenner is a Trojan horse. She is a trans woman who will agree with their stances for her own gain, allowing the GOP to point to her as justification whenever they are accused of transphobia.
https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1390310197747458050
The thing that truly, deeply scares me is that it will work. She is the only trans person many, many average people are aware of, and so many people will believe she speaks for trans people at large.
The GOP is making a brilliantly terrifying strategic move by adopting her. They will say that they don’t hate trans people, they just hate the wrong kind of trans people. Which happens to me almost all of us.
They’re doing the exact same thing with her as they did with Ben Carson for the black community. They’ve adopted a token figurehead who they will feed lines to, and will dictate the perception of the views and being of an entire group based on it.
It makes me so afraid, especially because trans people are not common. We’re about .5% of the population. That makes us almost entirely dependent on cis people speaking up on our behalf, and advocating for us, even when our experiences are so unrelatable to them.
Caitlyn Jenner is the only trans person so, so many average people are even aware of. And she’s going to be used to paint the rest of us as monsters.
I am literally begging cis people to help us shut her down before it’s too late. California is a blue state. Please stop her.
I am literally begging cis people to help us shut her down before it’s too late. California is a blue state. Please stop her.
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