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Bruce Jenner: 'I am a woman,' but 'I am not gay'
New York — Former Olympic champion Bruce Jenner says that "for all intents and purposes, I am a woman."
Jenner spoke in a long-awaited interview televised Friday with ABC's Diane Sawyer about his gender identity, saying he has always been confused about it. Ahead in the interview, Jenner took out his ponytail to let his prolonged hair flow behind him.
"My brain is more female than it is male," said Jenner, the 1976 Olympic decathlon champion who has been better recognizable in recent years as part of television's omnipresent Kardashian family.
Jenner said he hopes that speaking publicly about the gender issues would do some nice in the world and vigorously denied that the interview was some sort of publicity stunt to promote the Kardashian existence TV show.
"If the Kardashian show gave me a foothold to do some good, I'm all for that," Jenner said.
Jenner said he self-identifies as "her," not a specific label. But he told Sawyer he felt comfortable using the pronouns "he" and "him," a designation that is an important issue for many in the transgender community.
As a fresh boy, Jenner felt an urge to try on his mother's and sister's dre
Bruce Jenner: When Did He Know
— -- Bruce Jenner’s earliest memories of feeling like he wanted to experiment something new came at about age 8 or 9. He remembers sneaking into his mother’s or sisters’ closet to dress up in their clothes while they were out.
“I marked the closet so when I position it back I could put it all back, everything back in the exact same detect so I wouldn’t get caught,” Jenner told ABC’s Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview that aired Friday in a special edition of ABC News’ “20/20.”
“And, at the time, I didn’t know why I was doing it besides it just made me feel good,” he added.
During the interview with Sawyer, Jenner referred to himself using male pronouns and ABC News has chosen to follow his guide, though he also referred to himself as “Bruce” and “her.”
“I like her,” Jenner said. “I look at it this way—Bruce always telling a stretch. He’s lived a lie his whole life about who he is. And I can’t perform that any longer.”
For the first period in nearly 50 years, Jenner returned to the place where he grew up, Tarrytown, Recent York, with Diane Sawyer and recounted early memories of putting on dresses and wearing a scarf to cloak his short hair.
“You have no
I really don’t want to chat about Caitlyn Jenner. Rather, I find myself in the unenviable position of having to note about Caitlyn Jenner. As a transgender writer in 2021, it is largely unavoidable, and as such, I am resigned to this fate.
It’s not that there aren’t things about Jenner that aren’t worth writing about. She will always be the 1970s-era Olympic hero/reality television celebrity who transitioned in the public eye. She is part of the glitch and glamor of the Kardashian family, and all that entails.
Likewise, my own personal reasons for not wanting to document about her are not because I don’t see her as “legitimately transgender,” whatever that means. Jenner is a transgender chick. She has transitioned. I’m not going to disparage her on the basis of her transition, or her birth gender, or any of that, and I will urge you to not do so either.
I also am not envious of her. My feelings towards her have nothing to do with the gold she brought back from Montreal in 1976, nor her ability to make money off either that or her reality television lifestyle. I’m happy with my life, and don’t feel a need for the trappings of wealth and fame.
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Gender Identity Versus Attraction: 'It's Apples and Oranges' Says Bruce Jenner
— -- When Brandon Jenner, Bruce Jenner’s son, learned his dad is transgender, his “biggest question,” he tells ABC News, was who his father might want to be in a relationship with in the future.
“I feel like in life we’re all looking for affectionate and so many things are done in the planet just to experiment to gain admire , you know,” Brandon says, turning to his dad. “From here on out. ... I wonder how your—what your desires are in that regard. If you’re looking forward to meeting somebody."
When people appear out as gender nonconforming -- especially if they choose to transition medically -- one of the most common questions they face is how it affects whom they are attracted to and whom they adoration. The fact is—for many transgender people—it simply doesn’t.
As Bruce Jenner tells Diane Sawyer, “It’s apples and oranges.”
“Never Been With a Guy”
Jenner tells ABC that when it comes to attraction, “No, I’m not gay. I am not gay. I am, as far as I perceive -- heterosexual.”
“I’ve never been with a guy -- I’ve always been married, raising kids, doing all that caring of stuff.” Jenner adds. "There’s two diffe