E! Channel's 'I Am Cait': 'Republicans and Conservatives Not These Horrible People Trying to Oppress People'

Dylan Gwynn | March 7, 2016
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So, with the trans road-trip buzz destroyed by the mere suggestion that jobs might be more important for trans people than being able to use a women’s bathroom, the group then cornered Jenner on the party bus, as news of the defeat of the Houston HERO ordinance came down. Which, of course, led to nothing but insightful, top drawer debate:

>> Jenny: So, Caitlyn, I want to come back to you on this because it's worth asking you how you feel, as a conservative, about this.
>> Caitlyn: I don't think it was presented well to the public.
>> Jenny: But it was Republicans and conservatives who said--
>> Caitlyn: Oh, please, it's not, don't go there. Just as much the Democrats. It was not, please, please, please, please.
>> Jenny: Caity, no, Caity, it-it's true. Caity, why are you insisting that?
>> Caitlyn: No, it's not! No, it's not.
>> Jenny: It's not the truth?
>> Caitlyn: Republicans and the conservatives are not these horrible people out there trying to oppress people.
>> Jenny: I didn't say they were terrible people. In this particular, in this--
>> Caitlyn: They're-they're not.
>> Jenny: No, I know that. I-I come from a Republican family.
>> Caitlyn: Sometimes these girls think now that I've transitioned that I, everything has to change. You can't be conservative anymore. You have to be a liberal. Um, no, I don't believe that. I think, uh, I can keep, um, all of my views the same, uh, 'cause I feel in my heart that that's the best way to go. I don't know anything of what they said down there, but I'm not blaming it on Republicans and conservatives, okay?
>> Jenny: Well, I think you need to take a look at that.
>> Caitlyn: Yeah. Oh, please.
>> Jenny: No, you, please.
>> Caitlyn: That's why you all need to go with me...
>> Jenny: No, you-you, please! You need to look at it, Caity.
>> Caitlyn: This is why you all need-- No. No, I'm not gonna identify that. We're not going there.
>> Jenny: We are going there. That's why we're on this trip.
>> Caitlyn: And-- Oh, God.

“We are going there, that’s why we’re on this trip…” Kind of sums it up doesn’t it? Why should someone’s sexual identification change the way they feel about politics? Why should mind control and labeling, which trans people claim to hate, be essential in the transgender community? Unless, the entire purpose of your movement is political. Then it would make sense.  

That makes sense.