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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><Could you imagine being . . . six years old . . . secretly gay (the
proverbial closet) . . . in a family (or church) that openly and
strongly believes that being gay is horribly wrong . . . thus reminding
you on a daily basis . . . that your life is a sin?><br><br>How does that scenario relate to this story? Jenner doesn't claim to have ever been 'secretly gay' and he now considers himself to be 'asexual'.<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: thansen@moscow.com<br>Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 06:58:18 -0700<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Subject: [Vision2020] Gold medalist Jenner says he’s transgender<br><br><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div>Courtesy of today's (April 25, 2015) Spokesman-Review.</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><h1 style="clear:both;line-height:1.2;font-size:28px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(17, 17, 17);">Gold medalist Jenner says he’s transgender</h1><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bruce Jenner said Friday night that he’s transitioning from male to female, plainly telling ABC’s Diane Sawyer, “Yes, for all intents and purposes, I am a woman.”</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The much-anticipated interview kicked off with the 1976 Olympic decathlon gold medal winner and reality TV celebrity reaching for a tissue even before the questions began. “I’ve been thinking about this day forever and what I should do with my life and how do I tell my story,” Jenner said.</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After revealing a lifelong struggle with gender identity, the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” father discussed how that affected each of his three marriages, shared details about his 1980s attempt to transition and told what it was like to bring his six children and four stepchildren up to speed on the secret he had been keeping.</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I’ve always been confused about my gender identity since I was this big,” the 65-year-old explained, gesturing a few feet above the ground. It was, Jenner said, as if God had put a little boy together, adding smarts and athletic ability and more, and then said, “Let’s give him the soul of a woman and see how he deals with that.”</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jenner wants to continue to be referred to as “he” and “him” for the time being, Sawyer told viewers. During the chat, Jenner referred to the person he’s becoming as “her” and “she,” not mentioning a specific name. “If I did,” he said, “the media would go crazy.”</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Media pressure has been significant: The night after a surgery to reduce the size of his Adam’s apple made headlines thanks to a paparazzo’s picture, Jenner said, he briefly thought about how easy it would be to end his life and “go to a better place.” Then he realized he couldn’t do that, because he had to see how his real story ended.</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jenner said his gender identity issues hadn’t played a role in the breakup of his marriage to Chrystie Jenner, nee Crownover, in 1981, but were behind the split from his second wife, actress Linda Thompson, in 1986. He went as far as taking hormones for five years in the 1980s and had plastic surgery on his face before giving up on transitioning, in large part because he was concerned about hurting his family. Kris Kardashian, who would become Kris Jenner, learned early on about his gender confusion, he said.</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“She goes, ‘OK, so you like to wear women’s clothes some?’ I downplayed it,” he said. She “didn’t say much” after that, he said, and they never went to therapy about it. Speaking highly of Kris, who as his manager had revived his career with infomercials and then the “Kardashians” juggernaut, he said he had a wonderful couple of decades with her.</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Not only was I able to call him my husband for 25 years and father of my children, I am now able to call him my hero,” Kris Jenner said on Twitter after the show.</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Brandon Jenner was the first child Bruce shared his story with, months ago, and the four oldest Jenner children appeared on the program.</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The way he (told me) wasn’t perfect,” Brandon Jenner told Sawyer. However, he said, “I feel like I’m getting an upgraded version of my dad.” Daughter Cassandra Marino said she asked her father what he wanted to be called. “He said, ‘I’m Dad. Call me Dad. I’ll always be your dad.’ ”</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jenner said he has been on hormones for a year and a half and planned to have surgery done on his face and breasts. He has no idea what another marriage might look like, declaring himself “asexual” for now. </span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Although Sawyer didn’t bring it up, he told her he hasn’t yet made a decision about sexual reassignment surgery. If he took that step, he said, he would do it “so quietly” that nobody would know. No cameras, no TV shows.</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">During the broadcast, however, the E! network – which airs “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” – announced an eight-part series that would show Jenner’s “new normal” living as a transgender woman. The show premieres July 26.</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Today, millions of people learned that someone they know is transgender,” Sarah Kate Ellis, president and chief executive of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, said in a statement. “By sharing this story, Bruce Jenner has shined a light on what it means to be transgender and live authentically in the face of unimaginable public scrutiny. Though Jenner’s journey is one that is deeply personal, it is also one that will impact and inspire countless people around the world.”</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jenner said a perfect day would be one in which he simply blended in. He wanted to be able to keep nail polish on long enough for it to chip.</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One more revelation: Jenner is, he said, a Republican – one who would be happy to talk with party leaders in the future about transgender issues.</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The interview was his last as Bruce Jenner. “She,” Jenner said, would be the next to speak publicly.</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I’m not saying goodbye to me. This has always been me.”</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="overflow:visible !important;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner revealed a lifelong struggle with gender identity in an interview aired Friday.</span></p></div><div><img src="cid:9B6C4262-A4F1-4D1D-9B38-2940FD094432" alt="image1.jpeg" id="ecx9B6C4262-A4F1-4D1D-9B38-2940FD094432"></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/Bruce_Jenner.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/Bruce_Jenner.jpg</a></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Could you imagine being . . . six years old . . . secretly gay (the proverbial closet) . . . in a family (or church) that openly and strongly believes that being gay is horribly wrong . . . thus reminding you on a daily basis . . . that your life is a sin?<br><br><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" </span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div><br>=======================================================
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