Bruce Jenner Is ‘Transitioning Into a Woman’
Source: Time
A source close to the former Olympian confirmed he's making a big lifestyle change
People have been talking about Bruce Jenners changing appearance for months, and now PEOPLE reports that the former Olympian will soon be living life as a female.
Bruce is transitioning to a woman, says a source close to the family. He is finally happy and his family is accepting of what hes doing. Hes in such a great space. Thats why its the perfect time to do something like this.
Read more: http://time.com/3690939/bruce-jenner-woman/
Bruce Jenner Is 'Transitioning into a Woman,' Source Confirms to PEOPLE
http://www.people.com/article/bruce-jenner-transitioning-woman
Bruce Jenner is becoming a woman, will document process with reality TV show
http://www.mercurynews.com/celebrities/ci_27412160/bruce-jenner-is-becoming-woman
Bruce Jenner Journey Docuseries In Development At E!
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The development process has gone as far as the head of publicity at E! planning a meeting with GLAAD about how to handle such a sensitive subject. Variety reached out to reps for E!, which declined comment.
But the project is not far enough along to have a title, premiere date or episode order.
Its in the very beginning stages, but its a go, an insider close to production tells Variety.
Kim Kardashian West sat down with Entertainment Tonight to lend support to what she referred to as her stepfathers journey, explaining, Bruce should tell his story his way. I think everyone goes through things in life, but I do think that that story and what Bruce is going through, I think hell share whenever the time is right.
http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/bruce-jenner-woman-transition-e-docuseries-1201418084/
Jenner placed third in the decathlon at the 1972 U.S. Olympic trials[8] and finished in tenth place at the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany.[9] His success prompted him to devote himself to an intense training regimen, while also selling insurance outside training hours.[1] In the era before professionalism was allowed in athletics this kind of training was unheard of. During that period, he spent eight hours a day at the San Jose City College track.[1][10] Centered around Bert Bonanno, the coach at SJCC, San Jose at the time was a hotbed for training aspiring Olympic athletes, including Jenner, along with Millard Hampton, Andre Phillips, John Powell, Mac Wilkins, Al Feuerbach, and others.[10][11] In 1974 and 1976, Jenner was the American champion in the event.[12] While on tour in 1975, he also won the French national championship.[13]
At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, he won the gold medal in the decathlon,[14] setting the world record of 8,616 points. The world record was broken by just 4 points by Daley Thompson in 1980. In 1985, the IAAF decathlon scoring table was changed, so Jenner's winning score has been reevaluated against that table and reported as 8634 for comparative purposes. As of 2011, Jenner is No. 25 on the world all-time list and the No. 9 American.[15]
As a result of winning the Olympic decathlon, Jenner was a national hero. He was the 1976 recipient of the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States. Jenner was also the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year in 1976.[5] He was inducted into the Olympic Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame, the Connecticut Sports Hall of Fame in 1994, and the United States National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1980. He was inducted into the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.[16]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Jenner
undeterred
(34,658 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)irisblue
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Much support for her
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)I had wondered if they had it right. I guess so.
Baitball Blogger
(46,733 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,658 posts)What a day for LGBT!
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)sports, business or the entertainment world. It appears he will be able to count on his family and friends for support as he goes through this transition. I think he will do it with style and grace. I just hope it brings him happiness.
Yes, I expect that he will be a great model for transgender folks.
k&r
Fearless
(18,421 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)yes indeed
SpankMe
(2,957 posts)The jokes I hear about Bruce Jenner and his gender identity issues just piss me off. Not funny. Suffice it to say that a vast (and I do mean VAST) percentage of these jokes come from tough-guy conservatives. And mostly dick jokes. Total asses.
lupinella
(365 posts)Congrats, indeed.
indivisibleman
(482 posts)progressoid
(49,991 posts)I hope talk shows don't use this for fodder for mean jokes and derision.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)I'm glad he has supportive friends and family.
LuvLoogie
(7,011 posts)could see that he has been transitioning since the 90s
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)I guess I should have expected it, but still. It's so nice that DUers are so kind and not making snide jokes about him.
It must be very difficult for him. I wish him well in her new life.
blackcrow
(156 posts)She needs something good to make up for that family from hell.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)JudyM
(29,251 posts)Scruffy Rumbler
(961 posts)And may the public forget about her and leave her to be herself....
damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)this is refreshing news. Ta heck with what others think and be yourself is what I say. Life is way too short to care about ignorant folk spewing ignorant remarks.
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)Here's part of his 1976 Summer Olympics gold medal winning performance in the decathlon, a part of his world record point total:
JudyM
(29,251 posts)Jimbo S
(2,958 posts)The first thought that came to mind was "this is where Bruce Jenner got famous".
RandySF
(58,899 posts)If a close friend told me he was considering a gender change, I would ask him to think twice about undergoing the physical and hormonal alterations it requires.
Calista241
(5,586 posts)The only question is how someone will feel 2 or 3 or 10 years after the fact.
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)As whacky as her family is, it sounds like they're supportive.