PAPER 1
Jerilyn Fleming
Jerflem43@cityuniversity.ed
Course: SOC101_01_IL: Introduction to Sociology
USADL - Summer 2015-2016
Instructor: Karina Arzumanova
DATE: August 14, 2016
Bruce Jenner a man who was born a man but now a transgender person. Bruce said he struggled with his gender dysphoria personality his whole life. He also struggled hiding it from the community. He did so through three marriages and six children. Bruce said “I am a woman, and my brain is much more female than male,” He also said “My whole life has set me for this moment so I want to take advantage of it and do the right thing.” Bruce said his not gay and never been attracted to men. Bruce has always been married and rising children. Bruce has been taking hormones assist to help balancing with his emotions for the past years. Bruce Jenner was known for “the world’s greatest athlete”. Bruce became a real-life super hero at the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games and the original U.S. Olympic image where he finished 10th in the decathlon game. When he was 26 and had won the Amateur Athletic Union decathlon name twice (1974 and 1976) and was the 1975 Pan American Games champion. He was also the reigning world-record owner (8,524 points), an achievement he achieved at the USA-USSR joint track meet up, apprehended in Eugene, Oregon, in August 1975. Bruce Jenner transgender has change his whole life style. Some people think Bruce Jenner is just cross- dressing but Jenner said “Its not that
First of all David Reimer (then known as Bruce) was genetically born a boy however in 1966 his penis was destroyed by accident during a circumcision, his parents then took him to a psychologist and sexologists John Money. Money advised the parents to change the sex of their child since penis reconstruction wasn’t an option then, he was a supporter of the idea that gender wasn’t predetermined genetically and was from the influence of the environment.
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
Dr. Money argued it was possible for a person to change gender successfully through surgery, socialisation and hormone replacement. Unaware Dr. Money had never attempted this before, Bruce’s parents, Ron and Janet Reimer consented. On 3rd July 1967 Bruce was surgically castrated and renamed Brenda.
Jazz Jennings is transgender. In one of her videos she stated, “I have a girl brain and a boy body”. She has a disease called gender dysphoria. She likes Soccer and Cheer, but she couldn't play then for a long time but after a 2½ year battle she could finally play them. She also likes to draw and sew. She even makes her own mermaid outfits. She stated that, “people think i'm weird and shouldn’t have the same rights as them just because of what's between my legs”. She thinks being transgender is special or unique not a disorder. A person asks, “do you ever get threatened?” She responded, “Yeah like on the youtube videos some people who are less understanding actually say very nasty and rude comments, it definitely hurts to hear
I did my research paper on Kylie Kristen Jenner a 19-year-old born and raised in Los Angeles California. Born on August 10th 1997. Kylie 's Parents are Kris and Bruce Jenner, Kris was married to Robert Kardashian from 1978-1991. They had three beautiful girls Khloe,Kourtney, and Kim. Along with that, they had a son Robert. Unfortunately, Robbert Kardashian Died September 30th, 2003. Later when kris got remarried to Bruce. Bruce Jenner was an Olympic gold medalist for running track. In 2015 Bruce decided that he no longer wanted to pursue the life on a man anymore. He then changed his name to Caitlyn and started off his new life as a 67-year-old transgender. This gender changed caused Kris and now Caitlyn Jenner to get a divorce. Kris and
William Bruce Jenner was considered to be one of the best athletes of his time. Bruce was born on October 28, 1949, in Mount Kisto, New York (Bruce Jenner (n.d). His parents were William and Esther Jennings. Bruce who was the second oldest had three sisters and a younger brother Burt, who dies during a car accident 1976 the same year, Bruce would go on to win the decathlon (Witheridge, 2015). But before Bruce would ever become to gold medal winner at the Olympic or have his face on a box of Wheaties cereal, there was something dark growing inside of Bruce no one knew. Caitlyn would later say that Bruce had two secrets that he did not share openly with the world. First, Bruce at a young age would be diagnosed with dyslexia, which made him have very low self- esteem as a child (Bissinger, 2015). Secondly, Bruce by the age of 10, would like to go in the closet and dress up in his mother's clothes (Bissinger, 2015).
Born William Bruce Jenner on October 28th, 1949 in Mount Kisco, New York, to Esther Ruth and William Hugh Jenner, Bruce’s siblings were Lisa, Pam, and Burt. My earliest memory of Bruce Jenner was when he won the gold medal in 1976 in the Decathlon event in Montreal, Canada, during which the legend of Bruce Jenner was conceived and where he increased fame as an all American Hero, and unofficially being baptized the “World’s Greatest Athlete. In 1977, Jenner donned the cover of the Wheaties box, called the breakfast of champions, and developed into a cultural icon.
So when I see a man like Bruce Jenner who is now professing to be transgendered, I call baloney on
Communication is a process that allows us to construct identities based on the interpretation and intention of speech acts. Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, spent most her life identified by her master identity as a cis-white-male and until a few years ago she adopted the interactional identity of a transgender female. In this paper, I will demonstrate how various forms of speech acts build, remain and/or change the master and interactional identity of Caitlyn Jenner as well as her relationships to others. To do so I will explain how Caitlyn Jenner seeks advice from her close family member Scott Disick to help her understand the variety of speech acts coming from both her private and public life: ranging from Scott who demonstrate face redress and accept her based on her new interaction identity as a female, while also dealing with the face threats that come from those (particularly males) who only see her as her previous master identity as a male.
Similarly, many of you are aware that Caitlyn Jenner was not always the woman she is today. There is no set age to when we find out who we truly are and sometimes, people leave the world without ever really knowing who they were. But in reality, we are unlikely to stop to think of our identity. However, Caitlyn Jenner did and she went through so many transitions to find the place where she belonged, not with other people, but the place within herself. She went from being a heroic track and field athlete, who won a gold medal in 1976 to a reality television star with the Kardashian family, to being divorced three times, to being a father to several children and finally becoming a transgender woman.
Over the past few years, the issues faced by people who identify as transgender (gender dysphoric) have gained momentum in the media. From Caitlyn Jenner to which bathroom to use, transgender people have made a lot of progress in addressing
In interview with John he reports that he has struggled with gender identity issues since childhood. He explained that he would experiment with presenting as a female. John stated that he became very confused by his feelings and emotions about his gender, and was comfortable playing with roles and adapt female mannerisms. He advised that once he commenced university studies that he felt that he ‘conformed’, but continued to emotionally struggle with his identity. This conformity continued through his career, and it was not until he posted to Sydney that he became more open about his feelings and emotional responses about being a female. John explained that in 2006/07 that he became affiliated with the transgender community and felt more
Shunning in the United States today seems like a usual to people today. It usually is done to the popular or famous groups but sometimes is done to ordinary people who have done something extremely bad. Some reasons why to shun people would be if a person commits a murder and got away with it or some cheats in a popular sport by taking athletic enhancing drugs. Most shunning tends to go away after a long time or after another person commits a worse crime.
My son was born as Bruce Jenner on October 28, 1949 in Mount Kisco in New York. He earned a scholarship for football to a College named Graceland. Sadly a knee injury stopped him from playing it. It was very ironic for him to had been known for a male athlete in the Summer Olympics in Montreal Canada, in the year 1976 who put the decathlon first who then set the world record of 8,616 points crossing the finish line. She is now 65 and is already living his life as a woman has exclusively learned from makeup, to mannerisms, and clothes. It's shocking to find out that after this whole change he is now a she and is making the decision to say that she wants to return to being a man, even though the gender transition is already
Greatness in sports is a status that only very few reach, however to be labeled the greatest athlete of all time is for that one soul individual who excels at all aspects of the game and exceeds every other player in that sport. In my exploratory essay I established what makes an athlete the greatest athlete of all time. In the following paragraph I am going to summarize what makes an athlete the greatest athlete of all time. For the sake of the argument to follow I am going to stick with just the NFL. When I look at the NFL one name comes to mind when thinking about the greatest NFL player of all time. His name is Tom Brady. Tom Brady is the greatest of all time.