Friday, August 21, 2015

Really

Caitlyn Jenner failed to stop while driving on the Pacific Coast Highway and her Cadillac Escalade hit a Lexus pushing it into on coming traffic hitting a Hummer, killing the woman driving the Lexus, and hitting a Toyota Prius. She’s never admitted fault for her actions, said she prayed for the dead woman’s family, and now faces possible vehicular manslauter charges. 

Yet she was awarded an Arthur Ashe ESPY award for courage and character for coming out as a transgender woman, even though millions of women have come out, and many transitioned, before her to face hate, discrimination, joblessness, poverty, violence and even death. What courage and character has she shown outside of what of her wealth and privilege has provided her to be insulated from realtiy the rest of us live?

The transgender community has embraced her despite her statements saying transgender women should get jobs and not depend on the government to help them in live and their transition. This from a woman who earned her wealth as Bruce Jenner, Olympic champion, and member of the Kardashian family with the reality TV show.

Caitlyn has admitted to being a staunch republican, flaunting her wealth and privilege on her own TV show, all the while the transgender community thinks she deserves respect for coming out with the help of her money, her family, Vanity Fair magazine and a television network, while she questions ordinary transgender women needing help to survive, live and hopefully transition.

And that's worth an ESPY award. Really?