Alexandra Billings, actress, transwoman and trans advocate,
on self-loathing transphobe Caitlyn Jenner:
“Since she can remember Caitlyn Jenner has been worshipped
and adored by an international audience. When she finally found the courage to
live her life openly and without shame, she became an instant icon. Without
having paved the way for anyone but her, we all gathered around and once again,
gave her the global attention she so deeply demanded. As she began to slip back
into obscurity and her life became about how to navigate her life like every
other trans person in America, the dullness and dreariness become a reality. So
she, like many of us, climbed back into her shame that she lived with for
decades and now, found a group of people, mostly conservative and mostly
religious to the point of fanaticism, and found a family of self-loathing rule
makers. Just like her. Her life of living wealthy and white and male presenting
came back to her as if it had never left, and now, as our country has been
given the blue ribbon for prejudice and transphobia by an orange tanned maniac
and his red hatted cultists, Caitlyn has settled back into her privilege,
spouting rhetoric even she doesn’t understand and yet finally being what she
started out as: A self-seeking attention grabbing rich white privileged Transwoman
who pretends to hate the attention, her whiteness and her privilege, all while
cozying up to a group of people who abhor the very thing she thinks she isn’t. She
exhausts me and I’m sick of paying attention to her. This will be the last post
I will ever write about her. Because for me, all the Transwomen that I knew who
gave their lives so that I may have the ability to sit here and write about my
feelings and live my life honestly and without self-doubt and shame, demand I
spend my time being of service to the revolution at hand, and not wasting it on
a human whose reflection is aging like the picture of Dorian Grey. Goodbye
Caitlyn. You are trauma to me. You are all of the bad people that did all of
the bad things to me and pretended they were my friend. You are a see-through
hero wearing a villain’s cape. You are a phony. And I cannot look at you
anymore. Goodbye Caitlyn. And strangely, I still hope you find your way.”
Word.
Jenner is a disgusting disgrace.
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