Sociological Moment : Caitlyn Jenner

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

“Run,” the promotional trailer for Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s concert could very well be a legitimate Hollywood blockbuster of its own. In the following four minutes of the trailer, shots spanning for no more than three seconds each glorify the power couple, showering them in action-packed scenes with guns, money, and alcohol. An explosion is even interspersed among the rapidly changing scenes. With both artists at the forefront of the music industry, it is no surprise that ‘Queen Bey’ and ‘Hov’ (derived from Jehova originally meaning God) go all out to prove to their audience that they embody sophistication, threat, vulnerability, excitement, and value—they deserve their respective epithets of ‘Queen’ and ‘God’, and they prove this perfectly with

In Buzz Bissinger's article, Caitlyn Jenner: The Full Story, Bissinger interviews an iconic American Olympian who shocked many people when she came out as a transgender woman. This article is a prime example of the issues we face around gender today, both from people who identify as cisgender and those who are outside the gender binary.

By not using the proper pronoun you are slowly taking away the meaning of her life. She fought to be who she was. She went through many different challenges and overcame multiple obstacles that stood in her way. Islan found a safe haven with her friends and community. This is something that offends all transgendered people and those who chose to use a different pronoun instead of the societally given noun.

Imagine a thirteen year old middle school girl, wearing Guess boots and an Abercrombie hood in order to fit in. Visualize a thirty five year old man listening to the top forty radio stations and watching American Idol, so he can have something to add to the discussion with his co-workers over coffee break. The various types of behaviours stated before are pertained to as conformity. Conformity refers to the process by which an individual's attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours are influenced by other individuals. Except, how do these necessities manipulate a being? Social psychologists have conducted an assortment of experiments and concluded that, through a range of forms of social influence, groups can alter their members’ personality.

Caitlyn Jenner is happy about being female and looking like a woman. However, Radar Online, June 30, 2015 reported that she has one problem that she wants fixed. Her voice doesn’t sound feminine enough to please her. She is trying to find a way to make her voice sound less masculine. A source told Radar Online that Caitlyn feels like her voice does not go with her body. It is too reminiscent of her former life as Bruce. One option she can undergo to help with her voice problem is surgery. Another thought would be to hire a voice coach.

Imagine living 65 years of your life feeling uncomfortable in your own body while also trying to hide it from the spotlight. Caitlyn Jenner, previously known as Bruce Jenner, lived through this struggle. Bruce was a gold medal-winning track star that set decathlon records in the olympics, but was also a reality TV star in the infamous show “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” After living his whole life in a man’s body pretending to be happy for his fans and family, he recently decided to transform into a woman. Realizing the positive and negatives effects that transpired from his decision, Bruce Jenner stayed confident and let nothing get in his way of going through with it anyways. Better known now as a “she,” Caitlyn’s transformation had

Caitlin Jenner is someone who has recently been in the spotlight as within the past year she had revealed that she was transgender. Growing up as an Olympic champion, Bruce Jenner was greatly looked up to, but is especially respected now for her courage in revealing her difficulties that had developed with being transgender. Always in the spotlight, it was truly difficult for Jenner as she never felt entirely like herself, but was too concerned with the thoughts of others especially the media, to reveal the truth. It is incredibly difficult for many who are transgender as society is often greatly disapproving, but is especially tough for people whose every move is on captured on camera, like Jenner. However, after recently revealing her story, she has become an instant inspiration to many and has recently received this year’s courage award. With today’s societal views this must have been extremely life changing, but with her story, Jenner has shown how listening to the music in which one hears is truly more important than conforming to what society wants everyone to believe. Jenner has paved way for many and is becoming a deep admiration. Without those like Jenner who take risks and listen to themselves rather than the others around them, society would never be able to evolve and

Kristen Stewart or mostly known as “Bella” from the movie series Twilight is a movie actress who has had many controversy on the way she portrays herself throughout media and the eye of the public. In the September cover of Nylon, Stewart stated that she feels no need of identifying or labeling her sexuality. She has chosen, “to remain vague about her sexual orientation because she doesn’t feel she has the “perspective” to do otherwise.” Her appearance as the “awkward” vampire girl, which many of the times media labeled her as, did a drastic change with the way she dressed an appeared.

Jenner just recently declared that he was a woman, and in 2015 transitioned to female now called Caitlyn Jenner. Just as noteworthy is the Army’s own famous transgender service member (TSM), PFC Bradley Manning. Manning, the intelligence analyst who leaked classified documents to WikiLeaks, decided while facing a 35-year prison sentence in a military prison that “he” was really a “she” inside, and that he wanted to begin living as a woman in prison. He successfully sued the federal government, who now has to pay for his hormone therapy and other treatment for his gender dysphoria, and he is now a she known as Chelsea

A great voice for this generation is Beyoncé Knowles because she is a feminist, she is an activist, she is a great mother and an overall wonderful person. She has worked hard to get where she is at. She actively speaks out on how women should be treated with more respect, how African Americans are mistreated, how being healthy is a big part of life, and how family should come first. But she is also known as not only a musical genius and very charitable, she is also in the movie and fashion industry. She is the daughter of Mathew and Tina Knowles; her father was a sales manager and her mother worked as a salon owner and hairdresser. She also has three siblings, and their names are Solange, Bianca, and Nixon Knowles. Solange being the most recognizable one because of her fame. The start of Beyoncé’s career was Destiny’s Child, an all-girl group that was widely known. She then ventured off to a solo career, which later became the start of one the greatest stardoms in history.

“It’s hard to decide what’s more frustrating about Bruce Jenner’s decision play-act a woman named Caitlyn: that we’re all supposed to ohh and aww over his new feminine face or curvy breasts, or that we’re supposed to act like this is at once fantastic and normal, brave and routine,” says Russell. Individuals all over the world question if Bruce’s transition is really brave, or just for attention, after sixty-five years of living. Since he is doing it publicly, with an interview with Diane Sawyer, and on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, it is easy for people to think that way. Adding onto that, since he is a celebrity, he is able to afford all of the surgeries, and the top doctors and plastic surgeons, but for other people, they are not so lucky. He cannot symbolize the transgender community when the population is not as fortunate as him.

On June 9th of this year, Caitlyn Jenner (formerly known as Bruce Jenner) introduced her new self on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine, thus creating a conversation and Internet buzz about her transition as a transgender woman. The Vanity Fair issue also included an interview style article, as well as other insight into Jenner’s life as Caitlyn. Many people reacted in a positive way congratulating the courage it took to come out in such a public way, while others instantly began to criticize Jenner and her motives. Caitlyn created a conversation about the transgender community that she was joining, a community that has been suffering with a lack of voice when it comes to transgender rights and discrimination.

Jenner said that as a boy, he was very lonely and never fit in with other people. In fact, he still feels like he doesn’t fit into our society because he is transgender. He admitted that as a young child, he secretly wore dresses and went out of the house covering his head with a scarf so that no one would recognize him. As an Olympic champion, Jenner stated that he was very confused and was focused only on running away from his gender identity issues, using the Olympics and his athleticism as a way to do so. As a husband, he felt very flustered and restless in his marriages and said that he had to deal with

The article I chose over a controversial gender issue was What Makes a Woman by Elinor Burkett. She speaks about the issues of transgendered people wanting to become and be called “women” when they don’t really know what makes a woman and what we, as women, have to deal with from the moment we’re born. She uses examples such as Caitlyn Jenner, abortion rights, and even colleges trying to make the transition to make it a more welcoming place but also being under scrutiny from the LGBT community. She makes the points that we are scrutinized daily for our actions and bodies and that the LGBT community appears to be using stereotypical gender related reasons to explain why they are going through their transitions to become women such as the desire