Raven-Symone is a proud member of the LGBT community.
So you'd think the former actress and current View co-host would have nothing but praise for newly-transitioned reality star Caitlyn Jenner.
But you'd be a tad mistaken for thinking this.
"I think it's wonderful, and yes, it needs a light being shined on it," Symone said of Jenner having been given such a platform."
However, Symone seems to think Caitlyn is trying too hard to do too much far too soon:
"When I came out, I didn't go and go hardcore and be like, 'I'm going to save the world for LGBT...' You've got to learn it. You've got to learn it first, and she's not, really."
At one point on I Am Cait Season 1 Episode 1, Jenner speaks to the camera at 4:32 a.m., wide awake and under pressure to get the whole transgender role model thing "right."
So Caitlyn is well aware that she has a lot of responsibility to bear, but she seems ready for it.
"I think you can be strategic before you come out as well," Symone added as a critique of Jenner.
"Before [I came out], I was definitely repping the community, even when I wasn't saying this is what I was. And I'm not faulting [Caitlyn], because yes, we need [her]. It's too fast, too soon."
It's clear Symone and Jenner have different views of their role in the world.
The former, in a clear swipe at Caitlyn, says she learned from "real gay activities" that one can only do so much...
... while the latter recently met with the family of a transgender teen who killed himself and wrote a heartfelt WhoSay entry about the experience.
"One tremendous problem, especially for trans youth, is the suicide rate," Jenner wrote.
"A recent study of nearly 100 transgender youth, ages 12 to 24, found that 51 percent reported thinking about suicide, while 30 percent had attempted it at least once in their lives."
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