Skit: Why I don't like Caitlyn Jenner

First off this is a Queer blog by a Queer person who supports the Gender Queer movement. If you are looking for someone to validate your hateful opinions about her keep looking.  Or better yet, stop being fucking hateful. Why I don't like Caitlyn has nothing to do with her. I'm not here to talk about how she hit a person, killed that person, and got a way with it.  Those are the brakes when you're rich, white, and perceived as male.  I do have a question before I get started. I know trans* pepole prefer to be called by the name they choose. But what about when your previous self accomplished stuff? Do we say birth name did these things because that is what you were called when you did the stuff or do you want all of people to use your choosen name when referencing the past? I would love to know.  Any who, I don't like Cait or her award becuase the world is acting like they have never seen a trans* person before. Like they didnt exist before a white person did it.  We had two very visible famous trans* people of color before Cait, Laverne Cox and Janet Mock. They were not treated with dignity like Cait is.  They were both called men, not real women, asked about whether or not they had surgeries,  and thier genitals brought in to question. This has not happened to Cait on tv. Of course the Internet is still just as mean and so are everyday people. However, TV personalities have been welcoming, loving, trying to use the right name and pronouns; they are making an effort with Cait that they never made for the two black trans* women. I dont understand why nobody cares unless the person in question is white? There were trans* people of all races before Cait all you had to do to find them was leave your little privilege bubble. My second issue is even though she is doing a very public transition that is going enlightenment a lot of pepole and introduce them to the T in LGBT, I don't think she is brave. The trans* undocumented citizen, who disrupted the White House speech, is brave. She deserves that award so much more.  She is out there everyday standing up for what she believes in and is doing it knowing she could be deported. But I think she is too brown for the American people and thier corporate sponsors. She migt draw attention to more radical issues that we don't want to deal with yet. So Cait won all because she is white and rich and not radical. She will probably say some misogynistic shit and America will laugh. And it will get easier for white trans kids, but trans* kids of color will continue to struggle for thier right to live, to live thier true self, and to be treated with respect.