Caitlyn Jenner, an Olympic gold medalist and reality TV star, is back in the limelight for her attacks on transgender equality. She was also a failed California gubernatorial candidate.
At a press conference yesterday, Jenner appeared alongside Nassau County, New York Executive Bruce Blakeman (R), who earlier this month prohibited transgender girls and women from competing in county sports facilities. Letitia James (D), the state attorney general, has already asked him to repeal his ruling because it violates the state’s anti-discrimination laws. He vowed to challenge this by suing James.
At today’s press conference, Jenner said, “You have to compete in the biological sex that you were born with” when it comes to sports membership. This is crucial to maintaining the integrity of children’s sports competitions.
“Come quit it today while we can,” she added.
She stated that although she supports LGBTQ+ rights, “it’s not like this is a great matter. It’s more of an issue of protecting children’s activities.”
Jenner and anti-trans advocate Sharron Davies spoke in an article in The Telegraph this past weekend, where she claimed that the Olympics, if they began conducting chromosome testing for female athletes, eight women who failed the genome analysis but who were cleared to compete after taking a physical exam stopped the tests in 1999. Cis people can sometimes have XY chromosomes.
Jenner claimed that she has been “pushing” for the Olympics to return to its mandated gender identification legislation because, if the events “continue down this road, it will be very much the end of women’s sports as we know it.”
Finally, she mocked transgender people for saying that they’re valid.
“I consider myself a trans person; I am also legally female. I changed all of my identification, right down to my birth certificate, so essentially, indeed, I am female, but on the other hand, I know I’m not,” Jenner said.
Another trans woman, Jenner said, “keep saying, ‘Oh, I’m a real woman, I’m a real woman,’ and I’m going, ‘No, you’re not.’ I will use your preferred pronouns, I will treat you as a woman, you can dress and do whatever you want, I have nothing against that, it’s fine, but medically you’re still male.”
“You have the ones who want the clicks, and they will be brutal with you,” the [transgender people] online would probably disagree with me, and most of the others would probably agree. I have a hard heart for those people who have that much hate inside of them.
Jenner has long opposed transgender people’s equality. In fact, she took the first position in her failed bid for governor, which was to oppose trans girls’ right to an equal education when it comes to school sports.
She told trans women to transgender activist John Cleese that they are not real women in her letter to the British anti-trans activist.
“I see these, ‘trans women are real women,’ no, you’re not. OK, that’s the bottom line,” Jenner said. “I had everything changed. Birth certificate, gender marker F, OK? Everything’s changed. Driver’s license, I’m a pilot, pilot’s license, you name every piece of everything that’s in my name is legally Caitlyn Marie Jenner, gender marker F, OK”?
“So, I live my life as a woman, but I’m not—I don’t consider myself this—’I am a woman now!’ and on and on,” she said in a mocking tone. “No, I consider myself a trans person.”
