Your comment is three years old I see, but the subject is still up-to-date. I followed Calpernia on youtube and on facebook and witnessed so many times that she would only allow flattering attention, otherwise she reacts pretty butthurt and gets rude. On one hand she's massively seeking attention and on the other hand she's constantly upset about not enough privacy. She even reacted VERY grumpy that her name and story is up at wikipedia and she asked for advice how to get her name removed there. She´s always referring to being a transgender who wants to keep up full PRIVACY.
Well, what can I say? This is not about being transgender, she's works as an actress in public and this is stuff every celebrity has to deal with. Your life gets discussed in public, no matter if you are transgender or not in that job.
She sold her story, made money with it. It's a sad story that made her name famous, but that doesn't protect her from people being interested in her.
If it is such a massive drag for her that people show interest in her person she shouldn't have agreed to make a movie of this part of her life.
I also watched that youtube video she made that got mentioned above, she listed what not to ask a transgender, what is okay .. but HOW she acted in that video was quite arrogant. She acted so darn prissy about people asking her questions and answered just like "No you DUMBASS! You can NOT ask this question! What do you think who you are?"
Other transgenders are totally open about everything, others are not. But she acted like you must be really a special kind of retard if you even think about asking her something about to her person.
Most people who ask such questions don't ask with bad intentions, they just want to know more and want to educate themselves about. But she acts all like "I'm not your open library for transgender issues, so please *beep* OFF! " I see how getting asked the same stuff all the time gets annoying after a while, but my god .. can't she just say she doesn´t like it? She used her special way of life to become famous, she's still active as an entertainer/artist in the transgender scene, yet she bites the hand that is feeding her and is offending people just for being more open for people like her, what in my eyes, is a good thing.
I don't say she needs to be extra grateful for being accepted like she is nowadays, cause that's how it should be, but I think she obviously cannot really deal with being a person of interest.
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