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Bruce Jenner Research Paper

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Bruce Jenner was born on October 28, 1949 in Mount Kisco, New York. Bruce was the second of four children of William and Estelle Jenner. Bruce was diagnosed with dyslexia at a young age and always struggled in school, yet somehow always seemed to excelled at sports. Following high school, Bruce accepted a scholarship from Graceland College in Iowa for football. After he suffered a knee injury it restricted him to only playing either basketball or track, he then made the decision to switching over to running track and field. His coach then encouraged him to start training for the 1972 Olympics. Something I found interesting was that his father William Jenner had competed in the U.S. Army Olympics in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1945, and won a silver medal in the 100-yard dash. When Bruce competed in the 1972 decathlon in Munich Germany, Bruce placed third in the Olympic trials and tenth at the actual Munich Games. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal however, Bruce ended up winning a gold medal and broke a world record, scoring over 8,000 points in the decathlon. …show more content…

After finalizing the divorce of him and Kris Jenner in early 2015, a 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer came out in April of 2015, releasing the news that Bruce came out as a transgender woman. Caitlyn said that she had dealt with gender dysphoria since her youth and that, she cross dressed for many years and also took hormone replacement therapy, but stopped after her relationship with Kris Jenner in the early 1990s became more serious. Caitlyn recounts having permission to explore her gender identity on her own from Kris, but because of not knowing the best way to talk about the issues they faced about this situation of wanting to become a woman, it lead to the deterioration of the 23-year-long

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