![]() I am transgender, recently transitioned, and I see where you and many like you come from with your opinions. I’m Caitlyn Jenner, a transgender woman and I’d really like to be a member of your outreach program on transgender issues. Let me guess how that conversation would go: There is even a push by some crazies that you are not eligible for US presidency unless both your parents were born here. Being born on US soil is just one method to determine US citizenship at birth. I’m not sure what the justification for that restricted view would be to be honest. Another argument is that it means someone born on US soil. ![]() Anyone born to a US citizen would be a citizen by birth. One interpretation is that it means a citizen from birth. This was an attempt by the founders to prevent our newly won independence being diluted by a bunch of English guys being elected to rule.īut there is debate on what “natural born” means since it has not been definitively ruled on by the Supreme Court. So for example, a person naturalized as a citizen does not qualify. The Constitution states that a person must be a “natural born citizen” to qualify to be President. What people are questioning is his right to be President because the Constitution has a higher standard than mere “citizen”. He did not become a US citizen when he moved to the US. He was born to a US citizen and has that right from birth. Or cisgendered Canadians, in Ted Cruz’s case.Ĭruz’ US citizenship is in no way in question. But I think it’s asinine that she’s hung up on a party that has made it clear that they hate everything she is and that her trans status makes her sub-human and not worthy of the same kinds of rights cisgendered Americans enjoy. At least she’s somewhat realistic about how she’s not being welcomed with open arms by political figures in her party? It’s sort of like the Mary Cheney conundrum – back in 2004, the Bush-Cheney campaign waged one of the most homophobic campaigns ever, and the whole time people were like, “But isn’t Dick Cheney’s daughter a lesbian?” My point? Caitlyn is allowed her political views, just like everyone else. I’m searching for something nice to say here. “Yes, trans ambassador to the president of the United States, so we can say, ‘Ted, love what you’re doing but here’s what’s going on.’” “You’re going to be Ted Cruz’s trans ambassador?” “And I have all my girls on a trans issues board to advise him on making decisions when it comes to trans issues. ![]() “Wouldn’t it be great, let’s say he goes on to be president,” she tells me in relating a conversation on the tour bus. Jenner reveals she met Cruz prior to her transition, more than a year ago, “and he was very nice.” And they need to be given the opportunity to build it back up.” With $19 trillion in debt and it keeps going up, we’re spending money we don’t have. I understand that.” So why support Republicans? “Number one, if we don’t have a country, we don’t have trans issues. The Democrats are better when it comes to these types of social issues. But I also think, he’s an evangelical Christian, and probably one of the worst ones when it comes to trans issues.” I haven’t endorsed him or anything like that. “I think he’s very conservative, and a great constitutionalist, and a very articulate man. So who does she support for the nomination? I ask. “That’s just political B.S.” she says of Donald Trump’s recent inability to disavow David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. The only candidates she spoke about with The Advocate, however, were Republicans. And drama is sure to ensue when Jenner meets Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail. “It got heated! Especially with poor little me, who’s the lone Republican conservative against all the liberal Democrats.” So heated, Boylan can be seen shouting “That is a lie!” at Jenner, at one point even swatting her head with a rolled-up newspaper. It was also contentious when the conversations aboard that bus turned to politics, which Jenner says they often did. Here’s the part of the Advocate story, where Caitlyn is talking about going on bus-tours with her group of trans lady friends. But Caitlyn has a new interview with The Advocate, and she basically endorses Ted Cruz and pitches herself as his trans outreach coordinator for when he’s president. Caitlyn seemed to come close to some kind of political awareness just this week, when she acknowledged that the Democratic Party is better on trans issues. I get that Caitlyn’s politics have always been conservative, but I really hoped that post-transition, her worldview would expand to the point where she could acknowledge that her party – the GOP – is terrible for everyone other than white men (and some older white ladies, providing that they’re rich). As I’ve discussed many times, Caitlyn Jenner’s continued association with the Republican Party is both infuriating and hilarious.
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