Among the eleventy billion executive orders Trump sharpied out on inauguration day last year was one attacking transgender people. The order decreed that the gender markers on all US passports had to match the gender assigned at birth, and last November Trump’s hand-picked Supreme Court upheld the policy in an emergency ruling. The cruelty is always the point with these folks. Well, the bigotry has come home to roost for Caitlyn Jenner. Caitlyn is a transgender woman, but otherwise identifies as a Karen. She’s an Olympian whose support for trans athletes is spotty at best, does support states’ rights to ban abortion, and wears white to weddings where she isn’t the bride. But now that the discrimination of the party she aligns herself with is affecting her negatively — an “M” gender mark on her newly reissued passport — Caitlyn went on a conservative podcast to lament how the misgendered passport has halted her world traveling… but she still loves Trump!
Jenner, who is transgender and began publicly identifying as a woman in 2015, told the conservative commentator how the policy had affected her personally: “What do I do? This is a safety factor. I can’t travel internationally anymore. I can’t use my passport.”
…Jenner’s comments spotlight a policy that Human Rights Watch has said could increase the risk of discrimination. A survey of 84,000 transgender adults in the United States by the nonprofit Advocates for Trans Equality found that 22 percent reported harassment, assault or denial of services when their ID did not match the gender they lived as.
During her appearance on Lahren’s show, Tomi Lahren Is Fearless, Jenner said all her documents—such as her passport and her birth certificate—had the sex marker changed from M to F after she transitioned.
“All my documentation was right: my passport, my Global Entry. I traveled around the world,” she said.
But after the new passport policy took effect, Jenner renewed her passport and received one with the sex marker M.
“I’m trying to figure out at this point what to do,” she said, adding, “For a lot of people, this is a huge issue.”
Upon returning to office in January 2025, Trump issued an executive order that said, “It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.”
Besides restricting sex markers in passports, the administration has targeted gender-affirming care for transgender youths, pushed for transgender women to be barred from playing women’s sports and blocked transgender members from serving in the military.
Jenner, one of the most famous trans women in the country, previously rose to fame as an Olympic decathlete champion and member of the Kardashian-Jenner clan. A Republican, she has often found herself at odds with trans advocates and is not considered a vocal advocate for trans rights.
She has stood against many issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community, including speaking out against trans athletes and voicing opposition to gender-affirming care for minors.
Jenner told Lahren she had written a letter to Trump about the passport policy, “explaining all of this to him, how it’s affecting me and a lot of other people.”
“I haven’t heard from him,” she said. “He’s kind of busy right now. My gender marker is not big on the issue. OK. So I get that, and I’m not blaming him whatsoever. I love the guy, and I love what he’s doing.”
Jenner noted that the policy could affect her ability to vote, adding that she did not believe the policy was “really thought out, what this means.”
“What do I do? This is a safety factor,” says the woman who held the door open for the cartoon villain with a lit TNT stick. And are we sure Caitlyn only competed in decathlete at the Olympics? Cause this is some world class mental gymnastics Caitlyn is maneuvering here. The cognitive dissonance, my word. Not to mention the self-loathing. My heart really went out to Hunter Schafer when her passport was misgendered last year, but I can’t bring myself to feel sorry for Caitlyn Jenner. This is where if she’d had the LGBTQ+ community’s back for the past decade, they’d be having her back now. Instead, Caitlyn has adopted the worst of right wing talking points, in the misguided belief that the policies would never come back to bite her in the ass. Instead of fully stepping into her true identity, she’s cozied up to a party that doesn’t believe in the very nature of her existence. Anyway, the joke’s on Caitlyn if she thinks the letter she wrote to Trump will do anything — this president doesn’t read. Anything.
This is what happens when you vote against your own best interests.
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