The rift between Caitlyn Jenner and transgender women of color continues to grow.
On Tuesday, the same day Caitlyn Jenner was featured in an extensive Broadly profile, transgender model Carmen Carrera slammed her on Instagram. In a long post, Carrera described her attempts to befriend Jenner, only to be met with radio silence and rudeness.
“What I found was this lady’s ego is way too big for no reason and she’s the most selfish person I’ve ever met,” Carrera wrote. “She even told me to my face that she ‘wanted to be #1,’ whatever that means. Doing humanitarian work means you have to actually be a human. Honestly, what does she actively do everyday for trans folks? And why does she take credit for what real activists are doing? Who even is she?”
Carrera went on to call her a “retired athletic hero turned background reality star” who is “stealing credit” from the rest of the trans community. She also suggested that Jenner let her “‘celebrity’ take a backseat.”
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The post itself was a series of four images. The first image was a text between Jenner and Carrera. Jenner texted Carrera asking her to call Jenner so that she could give Carrera “an update” on her activism. Jenner seemed upset that Carrera had been “putting negative things out in the press” about her.
The next three images were private messages with Sophia Hutchins, Jenner’s rumored 21-year-old girlfriend. Hutchins reaches out to Carrera to say Jenner would like to speak, but later says, “Don’t expect to hear back. You have burned that bridge.”
“A bridge? A bridge would entail having a connection between both sides. Cait is a flake,” Carrera responded.
Carrera is not the first transgender woman of color to publicly admonish Jenner.
In August, Ashlee Marie Preston, a Black trans womanand former editor of Wear Your Voice, confronted Jenner about her support for Donald Trump at an LA LGBT Center event featuring the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles. Preston uploaded the video onto Facebook. The clip went viral.
“You’re a fucking fraud,” Preston says to Jenner in the video. “It’s really fucked up that you continue to support somebody… that does everything with the military, that’s erasing our fucking community. And you support it.”
Preston later told INTO that the confrontation was “about letting people know that if you continue to support anti-LGBTQ interests, you will be checked for it.”
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