As I’ve discussed many times, Caitlyn Jenner’s continued association with the Republican Party is both infuriating and hilarious. I get that Caitlyn’s politics have always been conservative, but I really hoped that post-transition, her worldview would expand to the point where she could acknowledge that her party – the GOP – is terrible for everyone other than white men (and some older white ladies, providing that they’re rich). Caitlyn seemed to come close to some kind of political awareness just this week, when she acknowledged that the Democratic Party is better on trans issues. But Caitlyn has a new interview with The Advocate, and she basically endorses Ted Cruz and pitches herself as his trans outreach coordinator for when he’s president. SHE IS NOT JOKING. Here’s the part of the Advocate story, where Caitlyn is talking about going on bus-tours with her group of trans lady friends.

It was also contentious when the conversations aboard that bus turned to politics, which Jenner says they often did. “It got heated! Especially with poor little me, who’s the lone Republican conservative against all the liberal Democrats.” So heated, [Jenny] Boylan can be seen shouting “That is a lie!” at Jenner, at one point even swatting her head with a rolled-up newspaper. And drama is sure to ensue when Jenner meets Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail. The only candidates she spoke about with The Advocate, however, were Republicans.

“That’s just political B.S.” she says of Donald Trump’s recent inability to disavow David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. So who does she support for the nomination? I ask.

“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 one, 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?” she asked me.

“You’re going to be Ted Cruz’s trans ambassador?”

“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.

[From The Advocate]

I’m searching for something nice to say here. At least she’s somewhat realistic about how she’s not being welcomed with open arms by political figures in her party? It’s sort of like the Liz Cheney conundrum – back in 2004, the Bush-Cheney campaign waged one of the most homophobic campaigns ever, and the whole time people were like, “But isn’t Dick Cheney’s daughter a lesbian?” My point? Caitlyn is allowed her political views, just like everyone else. But I think it’s asinine that she’s hung up on a party that has made it clear that they hate everything she is and that her trans status makes her sub-human and not worthy of the same kinds of rights cisgendered Americans enjoy. Or cisgendered Canadians, in Ted Cruz’s case.

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