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Caitlyn Jenner Halloween costumes released
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“You probably won’t break any Twitter records when you wear this outfit like Caitlyn did,” reads the costume’s description on Anytime Costumes’ site, “but you’ll be sure to get a few laughs out of your friends and the other guests at the get together.”
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In response to the news that Spirit is releasing its own Caitlyn costume, Addison Vincent of Orange, California, posted a Change.org petition calling for the company to cancel the costume.
“To make a costume out of a marginalized identity reduces that person and community to a stereotype for privileged people to abuse,” writes Vincent.
“At a time when trans women and [gender non-conforming] folx, especially black trans women, are being murdered at such a high rate, and homelessness, unemployment, and inaccessibility to healthcare run rampant in our community, making fun of one or all of us is utterly insensitive and deplorable.”
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Source: BuzzFeed
Oh, dear.
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