{"id":2038,"date":"2016-07-03T20:27:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T03:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2016-07-03T20:27:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T03:27:05","slug":"catcalls-for-caitlyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/07\/03\/catcalls-for-caitlyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Catcalls for Caitlyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did eventually make it to Ptown, but not early enough to see <strong>Caitlyn Jenner<\/strong>.\u00a0 She was in town to take part in a fundraiser for <strong><em>Camp<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>Lightbulb<\/em><\/strong>, an overnight summer camp in Provincetown for LGBTQ youths ages 14 to 17.\u00a0 <em>Camp<\/em> <em>Lightbulb<\/em> is called a place &#8220;filled with fun, pride, community, friends, support, self-discovery and memories to last a lifetime!&#8221;\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s the experience Cait had.\u00a0 Quite a few people heckled her as she walked down Commercial Street.\u00a0 &#8220;You&#8217;re a fraud,&#8221; and &#8220;We don&#8217;t want you here&#8221; were heard, as Cait blithely strolled by with her entourage.\u00a0 I think even we in the gay community are on an educational curve when it comes to transgender people &#8211; and having such a polarizing figure as Caitlyn in the spotlight only makes it more confusing.\u00a0 For instance, she&#8217;s currently on the cover of <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em> wearing the <em>Olympic <\/em>medal.\u00a0 But, did Caitlyn win the medal?\u00a0 Or did <strong>Bruce<\/strong>?\u00a0 I&#8217;m not quite sure.\u00a0 Should a transgender woman be able to compete against other women?\u00a0 It certainly doesn&#8217;t seem like an even playing field to <em>moi<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did eventually make it to Ptown, but not early enough to see Caitlyn Jenner.\u00a0 She was in town to take part in a fundraiser for Camp Lightbulb, an overnight summer camp in Provincetown for LGBTQ youths ages 14 to 17.\u00a0 Camp Lightbulb is called a place &#8220;filled with fun, pride, community, friends, support, self-discovery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}