Trans Community Nervous as Caitlyn Jenner Returns to TV

I’ll admit it. I’m terrified.

The moment Caitlyn Jenner erupted from the long shadow of the Kardashian Clan to formally announce her transition, she’s courted controversy. From her skimpy reveal on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine and her public feuds with family to her titular reality show that demonstrated her shocking support for Donald Trump and complete lack of awareness on transgender social-political issues and a series of disastrous public statements an appearances such that deeply uncomfortable interview with Ellen Degenerous, Jenner has been justifiably criticized by members and allies of the LGBTQ community.

The 70 year old former Olympic gold medalist is making her first return to television in the live British reality television show “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!” The series, airing on iTV, features a group of 10 moderately famous celebrities entering the Australian Jungle where they will endure sparse food resources, extreme conditions and arduous trials such as being buried alive and covered in rats, wearing a cone on their head that is slowly filled with wolf spiders and drinking pig semen. Those who embark on such trials are chosen by the viewing audience and broadcast across the nation as it happens. Similarly to Big Brother UK, those watch the show telephone in to vote for which celebrities stay…