Bruce Jenner Transformation
Apparently Kris Jenner knew that Bruce was going through a female transformation before they were married but never told anyone. The children found out by accident that their father liked to wear dresses. Kim Kardashian shared her experience along with Kendall and Kylie. The person who took this revelation hard was Khloe who has faced many loses of male figures in her lifetime. The whole world got to watch how things unfolded in a Diane Sawyer interview where Bruce talked about how he has always felt like a woman from a really young age. |
Olympian is Transgender | |
ABC News covers the story where the TV personality discusses how he wants to be true to himself and live the rest of his life as a woman. The Kardashian clan was emotionally moved by the Diane Sawyer 20/20 special to the point that the whole family needs therapy. Bruce's younger daughters Kendall and Kylie are confused over their dad admitting to wanting to change his gender. Kim, Khloe, Kourtney are all handling the information with varied degrees of acceptance and trying to find a way to understand what is happening.   |
Introducing Caitlyn Jenner | |
Kim Kardashian gave her glam squad to help her stepfather get all beautified for her first magazine photo shoot. On the show KUWTK fans have been giving an inside look into how everyone in the family is taking the news. At the same time it is said that Kris Jenner is not really supportive of the new Jenner known as Caitlyn who has hired a new manager to help with the docu-series that is scheduled to air in July 2015. |
Gender transition | |
According to Wikipedia:
The Washington Post stated that Jenner's debut Vanity Fair cover, shot by Annie Leibovitz, had special significance for its subject: "After all the magazine covers that featured the former athlete, once lauded as the 'world’s greatest athlete,' the Leibovitz photograph will be the most meaningful. Looking directly at the camera, Jenner is finally herself for the first time publicly."
In an April 24, 2015 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer, Jenner shared that she is a trans woman and has dealt with gender dysphoria since her youth. She said that for all intents and purposes, "I’m a woman." Jenner cross dressed for many years and began a physical transition in the 1980s with hormone replacement therapy, but quit after meeting Kris Kardashian in the early 1990s.
On June 1, 2015, Jenner officially revealed her new name, Caitlyn, and her use of female pronouns.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 on June 1, 2015. 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 the new Guinness world record and beating President Obama, who did the same feat in four and a half hours, a month prior.
Jenner will receive the Arthur Ashe Courage Award during the 2015 ESPY Awards on July 15, 2015, in part 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."
At the same time it is said that Kris Jenner is not really supportive of the new Jenner known as Caitlyn who has hired a new manager to help with the docu-series that is scheduled to air in July 2015.
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