Jill Soloway, the creator of Amazon’s hit show “Transparent,” joined HuffPost Live on Tuesday and weighed in on the negative reactions to Caitlyn Jenner’s Glamour “Women of the Year“ honor. Soloway said she was disappointed to hear that one man even returned his wife’s posthumous “Women of the Year” award, with which she was honored after her death on 9/11.
Soloway: “It’s sad. There’s this feeling of the binary — this kind of either/or — that a lot of people get really attached to, and a lot of people are powered by anger and looking for a reason to be angry. And if he’s wanting the kind of attention around giving [his] wife’s award back, it sounds like he’s probably just really wanting to express anger to the world.”
While Jenner recently drew criticism for suggesting that the hardest part of being a woman is “figuring out what to wear,” Soloway explained that it’s important to understand all aspects of gender expression.
Soloway: “Some trans women are really femme, some trans women are really butch. Everybody’s different, and Caitlyn happens to be from a family — I’m a huge Kardashians fan — everybody in that family talks about hair and makeup and clothes all the time. It’s their hobby to look good, so that’s where Caitlyn comes from. Whether or not she has a right to do that — of course she has a right to do that. She’s a woman. Every woman has a right to be as femme or as not femme as they wish to be. And it’s absolutely awesome that Glamour has honored her. And I think people are slowly but surely going to come around to the sort of basic facts about trans-ness.”
What Jenner is known for most is rubbing her money and status in everyone’s face. Who cares that Jenner transitioned so late in life, or that Jenner has bought her awards. It is the fact that only a hand full of TGs less than 1% for that matter live like that. It is the fact that Jenner bought her transition and shoves it in the face of every one of us who actually had to work for it, keep a job, and a roof over our head at the same time.
Liz