Caitlyn Jenner Tells British House of Commons That Trump Has Set Trans Community "Back 20 Years"

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It's about time that Caitlyn Jenner admits that she has changed her mind about Trump. Speaking before the UK House of Commons this week, Jenner said that the man she once supported has set the transgender community "back 20 years", writes The Daily Beast. 

Jenner echoed the same sentiments in a March Newsweek interview in which the former Olympian and transgender advocate acknowledged that the Trump administration "has been the worst ever" on "trans issues."

Speaking as a leader in the trans community, Jenner added "It's going to be hard to change, but we've been through these types of things before and we'll continue to fight it."

The transgender community is not all-in on Jenner and may never be. Delivering the third address on trans issues to the House of Commons, following British actors Idris Elba and Riz Ahmed, the American former Trump supporter was the recipient of awkwardness, frustration and even anger that she was speaking in the first place. 

Wearing Her 'Finally Free' MAC Lipstick Caitlyn Jenner Joins Business In Condemning North Carolina Anti-LGBT Law

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Wearing Her 'Finally Free' MAC Lipstick Caitlyn Jenner Joins Business  In Condemning North Carolina Anti-LGBT Law

Caitlyn Jenner and MAC Cosmetics have debuted their first makeup collaboration, with a lip color called 'Finally Free'. Described as a midtone rosey nude color, the lipstick is priced at $17, with 100% of the selling price going to the MAC Aids Fund Transgender Initiative to support the transgender community. Caitlyn amps up her old Hollywood look by wearing a black corset. Shop it.

Republican Jenner Condemns North Carolina anti-LGBT Bill

Jenner stirred up a tempest a few weeks ago, talking nonsense about becoming her candidate Ted Cruz's ambassador to the trans community. We wonder if Jenner has had anothing to say about North Carolina's new, controversial LGBT bill.

House Bill 2, the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, puts in place a statewide policy banning individuals from using public bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex. The bill also reserves the right to pass nondiscrimination legislation to the state government, saying state laws preempt any local ordinances. It was an anti-discrimination bill passed in Charlotte that triggered the North Carolina state action .

North Carolina Law, Followed By Mississippi, Has Big Backlash

Bruce Springstein cancelled his scheduled concert in North Carolina tonight, explaining: :"Some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry -- which is happening as I write -- is one of them.

Lionsgate cancelled its production on a pilot for the original Hulu comedy 'Crushed', moving it to Canada from North Carolina. In a real blow to the state, online-payment company PayPal announced cancellation of a $3.6 million new facility in the state.

Growing Up Transgender in a Religious Family

Caitlyn Jenner and Chandi Moore wrote a post for LGBT community blog WhoSay, that is featured on People Magazine.

Growing up, my family and I were in church every time the doors opened. We used to say we went to church "from Sunday to Sunday." Even though I didn't realize I was transgender as a kid, I still knew I was different. When I was sitting in church, I used to feel like the sermon was all about me – directed at my "sins" specifically. I heard that my lifestyle was not becoming of God, and it was very hard.

Caitlyn Jenner Lights Up MAC Campaign While Blowing Up Internet With Talk Of Becoming President Ted Cruz's Trans Ambassador

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Caitlyn Jenner gets glossed over for MAC Cosmetics Spring/Summer 2016 campaign. Oribe is on hair and Mark Carrasquillo. If I was running this MAC campaign, I might be worried that featuring Caitlyn Jenner might blow up in my fine face. Perhaps forgetting that she is no longer Bruce -- even if she's still a Republican -- Caitlyn Jenner is singing the praises of ultra-conservative Republican candidate Ted Cruz.

It all began innocently enough. Jenner has a major interview in The Advocate -- girl talk between Caitlyn and writer Dawn Ennis, high in hills over Mailbu.

Ennis is impressed: "Caitlyn Jenner’s home is California contemporary meets Hearst Castle, even more incredible than it appears on television, and yet somehow extremely comfortable, feminine, and luxuriously styled without being gauche or extravagant. It’s chic, modern, and has a view that I imagine is second only to heaven. Seeing this place on TV, no matter how big your screen is, just can’t compare."

We learn that Caitlyn bought a plane and goes flying almost every day. For season 2 of her reality show, Jenner & Company are on a month-long bus tour from Los Angeles to the Grand Canyon, Santa Fe, Tulsa, Chicago, Des Moines, Kansas City, St. Louis, New Orleans, and Houston. “All the people we met were fabulous, articulate, trying to make it better in their community for other people. They started programs, developed programs in the community, which never existed before. It was very, very rewarding.”

Calling herself the lone Republican in a sea of liberals, drama lifts its ratings-worthy head when Jenner meets Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail. Talking about the increasing frequency of political talk on the road, Caitlyn Jenner lets it rip on why she supports Republicans and especially Ted Cruz.

“I like Ted Cruz,” she declares. “I think he’s very conservative and a great constitutionalist and a very articulate man. I haven’t endorsed him or anything like that. But I also think, he’s an evangelical Christian, and probably one of the worst ones when it comes to trans issues.” 
“I get it. The Democrats are better when it comes to these types of social issues. I understand that.” So why support Republicans? “Number 1, if we don’t have a country, we don’t have trans issues. We need jobs. We need a vibrant economy. I want every trans person to have a job. With $19 trillion in debt and it keeps going up, we’re spending money we don’t have. Eventually, it’s going to end. And I don’t want to see that. Socialism did not build this country. Capitalism did. Free enterprise. The people built it. And they need to be given the opportunity to build it back up.”
Jenner reveals she met Cruz prior to her transition, more than a year ago, “and he was very nice.” 
“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. “And I have all my girls on a trans issues board to advise him on making decisions when it comes to trans issues. Isn’t that a good idea?”
“You’re going to be Ted Cruz’s trans ambassador?” I respond.
“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.'”
She wasn’t joking.

The response has been --dramatic -- and we're not qualified to discuss the matter. Just Google. Gawker takes a crack at it with Caitlyn Jenner: "Every Conservative Guy Out There Believes in Everybody's Rights.  Let me guess: Caitlyn Jenner doesn't believe in the Republican War on Women either. But controlling a woman's body is small potatoes compared to reducing the deficit. Unlike in the 1970s, Conservatism today has its priorities.

In a world of rich, white privilege, even Caitlyn Jenner can be delusional about how Ted Cruz really feels about her transition -- or whether he would even acknowledge her as a campaign supporter.  ~ Anne

EYE | Alicia Vikender Sky Dives Into Vogue US January 2016 As Caitlyn Jenner Says 'I'm Sorry' For Women & Appearances TIME Comments

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Alicia Vikender Sky Dives Into David Sims Images For Vogue US January 2016

Swedish actor Alicia Vikander is styled in a spring 2016 print frenzy by Tonne Goodman.  Alicia is riding a high wave after being nominated for two Golden Globes for her performances in 'Ex Machina' and 'The Danish Girl'.

Alicia plays Gerda, wife to artist Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne) as s(he) prepares to undergo one of the earliest sex-change operations. 

Eddie Redmayne (l) and Alicia Vikander (r) in 'The Danish Girl'

Reviews include:

'The Danish Girl': Venice Review David Rooney for The Hollywood Reporter

Review: 'The Danish Girl', About a Transgender Pioneer AO Scott for New York Times

The Danish Girl -- An Opportunity Lost Erica Koppler for Huffington Post

Related French Roast News . . . Anne is reading . . . 

Caitlyn Jenner on Privilege, Reality TV and Deciding to Come Out TIME

To you, what does it mean to be a woman and how have your ideas about that evolved?

Ohhh, that is something. I got to the point where every day I was living authentically, but what does all this mean? What does this thing that you have had in your head for so many years, mean? It’s more than makeup and clothes and all that other stuff. And what is that? I’m working on that. There’s still a lot to learn about being a woman. Honestly, I started getting books, started reading on all that kind of stuff. Have I come up with an answer? Not even close.

Caitlyn Jenner talks 'feminine presentation,' upsets trans community in the process Zap2it.com

Caitlyn Jenner Blogs About Her Time Interview and Sets the Record Straight on Appearance Comments EONLINE

What Is a Woman? Michelle Goldberg for The New Yorker Aug. 4, 2014

The dispute began more than forty years ago, at the height of the second-wave feminist movement. In one early skirmish, in 1973, the West Coast Lesbian Conference, in Los Angeles, furiously split over a scheduled performance by the folksinger Beth Elliott, who is what was then called a transsexual. Robin Morgan, the keynote speaker, said:

I will not call a male “she”; thirty-two years of suffering in this androcentric society, and of surviving, have earned me the title “woman”; one walk down the street by a male transvestite, five minutes of his being hassled (which he may enjoy), and then he dares, he dares to think he understands our pain? No, in our mothers’ names and in our own, we must not call him sister.

Caitlyn Jenner Debuts in Vanity Fair July 2015 Lensed By Annie Leibovitz

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Caitlyn Jenner Debuts in Vanity Fair July 2015 Lensed By Annie Leibovitz

Caitlyn Jenner debuts her true self on the July cover of Vanity Fair, debuting her sexy femme self in a photo shoot at her Malibu home, lensed by Annie Leibovitz.

Pulitzer Prize–winning contributing editor and author of Friday Night Lights Buzz Bissinger, who was given unfettered access to Jenner and her family, chronicles the tensions, traumas, and courage that shaped Caitlyn into the woman you see today, formerly known as Bruce.

Jenner speaks movingly about her journey, telling Bissinger, “If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, ‘You just blew your entire life.’ ”