Ellen DeGeneres Calls Out Caitlyn Jenner For Her Stance on Gay Marriage

With her very public transition, Caitlyn Jenner became a worldwide LGBT icon, whether she intended to or not. But as a recent interview with Ellen DeGeneres proves, she's still not all the way there.

DeGeneres grilled her about gay marriage, since Jenner is a Republican and many conservatives are still against marriage equality and trans issues. "I don't ever want to stand in front of anybody's happiness. That's not my job," she said. "If that word 'marriage' is really, really that important to you, I can go with it."

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Caitlyn Jenner appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres show on September 9. Photo: Warner Bros

"Maybe she didn't want to dance with me because I'm a lesbian."

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It's not exactly an enthusiastic endorsement of gay rights, and DeGeneres was taken aback. She elaborated later in an interview with Howard Stern: "She's Republican and conservative, and I think a lot of Republicans are wishing she wasn't Republican," she joked, adding, "Maybe she didn't want to dance with me because I'm a lesbian." (Jenner, for her part, isn't quite ready to say whether she'll date men or women going forward.)

But in all seriousness, DeGeneres still doesn't quite get why Jenner isn't gung-ho about gay marriage—to DeGeneres, Jenner needs to understand that equality is equality. "We want the same thing everybody [wants]," she told Stern. "I don't fully understand [transgender issues], but I want her to be happy. Which is what I want for her, for me."

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