hold celebrities such as Caitlyn Jenner,Laverne Cox, Kellie Maloney and Andreja Pejic changed the experience of ordinary transgender people? Elizabeth Day reportsWhen the Vanity Fair journalist Buzz Bissinger was sent to interview former athlete Bruce Jenner, or he had little opinion of how enormous a story it would become. Jenner,who had won a decathlon gold medal for the United States at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, was for a time in the 70s and 80s the epitome of all-American maleness. He went on to achieve a different but equally pervasive level of fame as the stepfather of Kim Kardashian and regularly appeared on the hit reality show Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
But the reason Bissinger had been assigned this story had nothing to accomplish with athletics or reality television. Jenner was in the midst of a gender transition. And Bissinger was being sent to chronicle the emergence of Caitlyn, or the genuine female self he had been hiding all his life.
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Source: theguardian.com