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Bruce Jenner Informative Speech

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In early 2015 the former Olympic gold medalist and the now reality TV star, Bruce Jenner, came out to his family about not being comfortable with his gender identity on the famous reality television show "Keeping up with the Kardashians". It was an emotional shock to the family. Later in April 2015, the rest of the world received the news that Bruce was becoming a trans woman on 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer. In June 2015 Jenner officially debuted to the world as Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair Magazine after transforming herself into a transgender woman. This news took the world by storm which stirred up a mixture of responses from the rest of the world. Some were encouraging words to the star and others were not. Now Jenner …show more content…

After spending six centuries of her life being treated as a male being, taking on responsibilities of a normal man and being a father to six children; Caitlyn eventually came to terms with her gender dysphoria which according to her, she has suffered since her youth. When she revealed her new self to the world, Jenner stated that she is now happy to be able to live her 'true self' after her long struggle. Back when Caitlyn was Bruce Jenner, he was inspired by the story of transgender tennis player Renee Richards: who was born a man and in 1976 won the right to compete as a woman. This lead to Bruce who has gender dysphoria to start hormone therapy and to have plastic surgery to look more feminine in the late 1980s. But out of 'fear' of publicity and shame, his gender transition process came to a halt and when he was exploring the idea of gender reassignment surgery, he had a change in heart after meeting Kris Kardashian. This showed that he had always been attracted to women and was willing to keep his secret to himself until he couldn't bear it any longer, for someone he loved. Caitlyn is a republican who likes tradition. She believed for a long time that marriage is between a man with a women and 20 years ago when the topic of same sex marriages came up, she did not support it, but she said on the Ellen Show that as time went by, the people around her who were for it, changed her way of thinking to "I don't want to stand in the way of someone's happiness." This affected Caitlyn herself as in the her season 2 trailer for "I Am Cait" where she flat out says this: "To be honest I don't see myself dating women in the future." Caitlyn's background, her emotional experience and what she believed in are factors that contribute and influenced her way of thinking, it also elongated the time for her to finally be who she really is. What makes Caitlyn who she is today, was her decision of not wanting to

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