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Transgender should never be used as a noun. Jenner talked about coming out, or at least partially coming out to his wives over the years. Jenner told Sawyer that Chrystie was probably “the first one to know” that he was transgender and struggling with gender identity, though Jenner “didn’t go heavily into it back then” when explaining his feelings.

He even pointed out that Black trans women are the most at risk for anti-trans violence. She then invited Cox to return to the show and really showed us how an ally should learn and grow after they make mistakes. Jenner said while his daughter K hloe is struggling with his transition, Kim, the first daughter that he told, is taking it really well, partially thanks to her husband, Kanye West.

Jenner also talked about some very serious issues with a lot of aplomb. Even trans women have been disagreeing about the best way to approach this story. Update: In June , Caitlyn Jenner came out as a transgender woman. I can have the most beautiful daughter in the world, I have that.

No one forced Jenner to have his life filmed for a reality show, and no one forced him to have a relationship with the press that is defined by leaking stories and photos at the most opportune time. This is what I deal with,” Jenner said. “I said ‘These are my issues. Any trans person navigating identity, community and especially family could explain that when it comes to explaining your identity to loved ones, family members will likely be slow, resistant, or even hostile, to making name and pronoun changes.

Is Bruce Jenner a Transgender? I was actually very pleasantly surprised by most of what we saw. This content was written in March , before Jenner publicly announced her full transition. Jenner told the story of a person who lived their life in public, but always felt like they were telling a lie by being the person the public saw.

It actually brought a tear to my eye when Jenner described how Kanye helped Kim come around to fully support him. One thing I should make clear, is that no matter what else was done, any coverage of Jenner that treated him as a sideshow freak to be gawked and laughed at was patently offensive, extremely dehumanizing and plainly malicious.

This time, the story is even more complicated. Outing a trans woman is an act of violence that can lead to her facing discrimination, alienation from her friends and family and physical violence, and some people saw this speculation as a version of that. Still, though, that very relationship with the media makes this story stand out.

But he says he stopped hormone injections before the couple married. He's seen here. Jenner also talked about how his family is taking the news. No. According to GLAAD, the term. He was on the cover of the Wheaties box. Seeing this story unfold over the past four months has been, to say the least, tiring, trying and very strange.

Still, I felt like Sawyer and ABC kept on dropping the ball only to be saved by Jenner picking it up and running ten yards with it. You could easily argue the Jenner-Kardashian family is the least private family in the world, so to have the media speculate on this story without a single comment from Jenner for this long has created what is largely an unprecedented situation, during which time the media has been enormously offensive and disrespectful.

This kind of coverage was vile and has no place in journalism. Multiple times she asked Jenner if he was gay or interested in men, even though Jenner pretty clearly explained gender and sexuality are different things. After all, when a trans person, even a closeted trans person, hears themself referred to with the wrong pronouns, it can hurt a lot.

As much as the previous coverage of his transition tried to strip him of his humanity, this interview built it back up. It seemed like Sawyer, especially early on, made a lot of the same mistakes Couric did. Last night on ABC, Diane Sawyer sat down with legendary Olympic decathlon gold medalist and reality TV star Bruce Jenner for an interview about the long-speculated-upon story that Jenner is transgender.

His first few sentences were filled with heavy pauses and tears wiped away with tissues. He talked about how he became deeply suicidal after the paparazzi ambushed him when he went to get a tracheal shave. No. He is a transgender woman or a trans woman. Before I get into anything else, I want to say congratulations to Jenner.

The Jenner-Kardashians are perhaps the most media savvy family on the planet, and so one thinks they would have been in control of this story from day one. Change of heart: Bruce has revealed Kris Jenner knew he had started a gender transition in the s. Is Bruce Jenner a Cross-Dresser?

His lifelong secret now out. Coming out as trans can be a terrifying thing, and I imagine that when you live in as big of a spotlight as he does, it must be even more terrifying. We also learned we still have a long way to go before trans women are treated with full respect by the media.