Bruce Jenne To Caitlyn Jenner '' MAN TURNS WOMAN '' WHAT NOW
A former college football player, Jenner came to international attention as a decathlete, winning the gold medal in the men's decathlon event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and setting a world record not beaten until 1980. She subsequently starred in numerous movies and television specials including several made-for-TV movies, and was briefly Erik Estrada's replacement on the TV series CHiPs.
Jenner was married for 23 years to Kris Jenner (née Houghton; formerly Kardashian); the couple and their children appeared beginning in 2007 on the television reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Following their divorce in 2015, she came out in a television interview as a trans woman, initially preferring male pronouns until her transition was more complete.In June 2015, Jenner revealed her new name, Caitlyn, and the change to using female pronouns. Many news sources have described Jenner as the most famous openly transgender person in the world
Bruce Jenner has finally decided to open up to his step-daughters about becoming a woman according to a shocking new report. He took Kim, Kourtney and Khloe to lunch to “explain his desire to become more feminine.” We have all the details on what was discussed and their reactions.
Bruce Jenner has finally decided to open up to his step-daughters about becoming a woman according to a shocking new report. He took Kim, Kourtney and Khloe to lunch to “explain his desire to become more feminine.” We have all the details on what was discussed and their reactions.
Bruce Jenner Becoming A Woman — Tells Kim, Khloe and Kourtney
On Dec. 1, Bruce invited the Kardashian girls to lunch to talk to them about his desires. “He felt it was time to be honest with the older girls and explain his desire to become more feminine,” a Jenner source told Star magazine.Bruce left Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner out of the conversation because he thought they weren’t mature enough to understand the situation just yet. “He will tell them in his own way when the time is right,” the source explained.
The older girls were extremely supportive when he told them he “has never been happier than he is now, he is finally being true to himself.”
Bruce Jenner’s Alleged Sex Change: When Will It Happen?
There have been many reports of Bruce having an official sex change. As HollywoodLife.com previously reported, Bruce has been hesitant about transitioning from male to female because he’s deeply concerned about how his family would feel about it.
Caitlyn Jenner's debut Monday was met with a social media firestorm and bipartisan support.
Vanity
Fair tweeted its latest cover Monday, starring the former Bruce Jenner,
now Caitlyn. And upon posting her first Tweet, the former Olympian
broke the Twitter Guinness-certified record, previously held by
President Barack Obama, by acquiring over a million followers in a mere
four hours.
It took Obama five hours to reach a
million followers but he has no hard feelings, as the @BarackObama
account, which is run by Obama for America, tweeted support for Jenner
and hailed her bravery for sharing her story with the world.
The tweet also asked people to share their own stories in the fight for LGBT rights.
Obama's senior adviser Valerie
Jarrett, one of Caitlyn's new Twitter followers, also tweeted words of
encouragement. Jarrett is the Chair of the White House Council on Women
and Girls and has spoken out in support of banning "conversion"
therapies that promise to cure gay and transgender people.
Just last month the White House
issued a statement by Jarrett, who wrote that "The overwhelming
scientific evidence demonstrates that conversion therapy, especially
when it is practiced on young people, is neither medically nor ethically
appropriate and can cause substantial harm," proclaiming the Obama
administration's support for efforts to ban the use of conversion
therapy for minors.
Openly gay Rep. Mark Takano, a Democrat from California, tweeted "The world loves you already."
And Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim ever elected to Congress, also expressed his support.
Jenner also received support from
Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who has been outspoken about her
support for her transgender son Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen. The Florida
congresswoman, who is one of the most outspoken advocates for the LGBT
community on Capitol Hill, invited Jenner to join her on the Hill.
Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore congratulated Jenner on her "Vanity Fair" cover and tweeted #YouDoYou.
In her groundbreaking interview with
Diane Sawyer last month, before Bruce came out as Caitlyn, Jenner
revealed that she is a Republican.
The
Log Cabin Republicans, which is the largest Republican organization
dedicated to representing the LGBT community, also welcomed Jenner.
Meanwhile,
Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee questioned Caitlyn's party
affiliation, tweeting "Well is #CaitlynJenner a Republican too ?"
Cohen also retweeted a response from
a follower, who wrote "What "Republican liberty" should Caitlyn
support? The one where LGBTQ rights R marginalized & criminalized?"
Republican presidential candidate
and former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, who once likened
homosexuality to beastiality recently clarified comments he made about
the then, Bruce Jenner, when he said "If he says he's a woman, then he's
a woman. My responsibility as a human being is to love and accept
everybody. Not to criticize people for who they are."
Santorum
took to Facebook to clarify that while he affirms Jenner "as a person,
made by God in His likeness," he is not suggesting any policy changes to
accommodate transgender individuals, which would include bans on
"conversion" therapy.
E!,
the home of the family's reality show "Keeping Up With the
Kardashians," will air an eight-part series about Jenner's transition
starting July 26.
Personal life
Jenner is a professed Christian, leans politically conservative, and is a Republican. Her first marriage was to Chrystie Scott (née Crownover) from 1972 to 1981. They have two children, son Burton and daughter Cassandra, known as Burt and Casey respectively. Jenner and Scott's divorce was finalized the first week of January 1981.The same week, on January 5, 1981, Jenner married her second wife, actress Linda Thompson, at the Oahu, Hawaii, home of film producer Allan Carr.By February 1986, Jenner and Thompson had separated, and they subsequently divorced.[58] Jenner and Thompson have two sons together, Brandon and Sam Brody, known as Brody.The two sons starred on the reality show The Princes of Malibu. Brody Jenner was also on the reality show The Hills.Jenner's third marriage, to Kris Kardashian (née Houghton), occurred on April 21, 1991, after five months of dating. They have two daughters, Kendall and Kylie. As Bruce, Jenner was also the step-parent to Kris's four children from her previous marriage to the late lawyer Robert Kardashian: Kourtney, Kim, Khloé and Rob. The couple announced their separation in October 2013, though they had actually separated a year earlier.Kris filed for divorce in September 2014, citing irreconcilable differences. Their divorce terms were finalized in December 2014 and went into effect on March 23, 2015, due to a six-month state legal requirement.
In February 2015, Jenner was involved in a multiple-vehicle collision on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California. The accident caused one death and 8 injuries, but Jenner was able to walk away from the accident.The stepchildren of the deceased filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Jenner in relation to the incident.
Gender transition
In an April 2015, 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer, Jenner came out as a trans woman saying she had dealt with gender dysphoria since her youth, and that, for all intents and purposes, "I’m a woman." Jenner cross dressed for many years and began physically transitioning in the 1980s with hormone replacement therapy, but quit after meeting Kris Kardashian in the early 1990s. On June 1, 2015, she debuted her new name, Caitlyn, image, and the use of female pronouns officially. Her transition is also the subject of an eight-part documentary series that will premiere in July 2015. While she has undergone some cosmetic surgery as part of transitioning, she has not ruled out gender reassignment surgery, and feels life as a woman is primarily a matter of mental state and lifestyle. She said she has never been attracted to men and had exclusively been attracted to women before her transition, but currently identifies as asexual.Jenner's announcement came at an unprecedented time for trans visibility, including legislative initiatives. The 20/20 interview had 20.7 million viewers, making it television's "highest-ever rated newsmagazine telecast among adults 18–49 and adults 25–54."The Daily Beast noted that, possibly because of Jenner's "honesty, his vulnerability, or his fame", she may have made "cheap jokes" about trans people—some examples of which aired during the show as part of the interview's educating the public on transphobia—"seem mean to a mainstream audience on an unprecedented scale."Using examples of how comedians had changed in their talking about Jenner's transition, The Daily Beast saw the change as the same evolution that took place in acceptance of LGBT people as a whole when "comedians finally cross the critical threshold from mockery to creativity in their joke-telling."
Prior to Jenner's 20/20 interview, a two-part special titled Keeping Up with the Kardashians: About Bruce was filmed with the family to answer questions and prepare the children for personal and public aspects of the transition. The episodes aired in May 2015 and emphasized a point made in the 20/20 prelude that there is no one right way to transition. Jenner made it a priority to ensure that all her children were independent first before focusing inward. Premiering the new "her", as Jenner referred to her emerging gender identity, was done with a photo spread, interview, and Vanity Fair cover shot by Annie Leibovitz, which was released by Jenner via Twitter. The Vanity Fair cover shot included the caption "Call me Caitlyn" and accompanied her new Twitter handle, @Caitlyn_Jenner, and the message, "I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me." She amassed over one million Twitter followers in just over four hours, setting a new Guinness World Record and surpassing Barack Obama, who, a month before, did the same feat in four and a half hours.
Jenner's first public appearance as Caitlyn will be receiving the Arthur Ashe Courage Award during the 2015 ESPY Awards in July 2015. She was given the award because "she has shown the courage to embrace a truth that had been hidden for years, and to embark on a journey that may not only give comfort to those facing similar circumstances, but can also help to educate people on the challenges that the transgender community faces
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