Benjamin Deck
medical researcher | North Philadelphia
"No. We live in a free marketplace. The companies should be allowed to produce the costumes. But the costumes are offensive. Caitlin is a human being, who has feelings. I sincerely hope that nobody buys them. And they shouldn’t make their own [Jenner] costumes for Halloween."
Brian Lauer
photographer | Queen Village
"I’m very much against the costumes. I don’t agree with mocking the transgender community but we live in a free society. The companies have a right to offer that product. I’m 100-percent for the transgender community. I feel awful that people will be hurt by these costumes."
Raymond Evans
mental-health therapist | Rittenhouse Square
"Absolutely not. This is a democracy. We have a constitutional right to express ourselves. Wearing a Caitlin Jenner costumer is another form of freedom of expression."
Karen Benson
artist/photographer | Pennsport
"The manu-facturers are free to do whatever they want to do. Caitlin thinks that her likeness on Halloween costumes is fun, and I agree. But she admits she hasn’t gone through all of the suffering and abuse that the trans community as a whole has experienced. I have mixed feelings about this whole thing."
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