Hi everyone, this is Sam. Trans genders have always been a part of our society kept hidden from the eyes. Our culture teaches us to question anything that doesn't fall under our knowledge. It doesn't show any mercy and can become cruel to those who goes against it. Fear of losing everything. How much it can affect us?
If you want to know the answer you must know about Catilyn Jenner aka Bruce Jenner. It took him 65 years to accept himself and express his true identity as Woman.
Bruce, being a child with dyslexia had hard time to focus on study. Bruce Jenner happens to be one of the world's best athlete. His career in sports started with receiving scholarship that he couldn't continue due to his knee injury. He was advised to go for track rather than football or basketball by his coach. He participated in Decathlon in 1972 and secured 10th place. In 1976, he became a world champion in Olympics.
Our society portrays a different picture for people like him- macho, full of manliness, success and money. As a result he was married with Chrystie Crownover and had two children.
As he was focused more into sports to get away from the guilt and fear about his fame and career their marriage didn't last. Linda Diane Thompson came into his life as the second woman and they had two children. Linda came to know about her husband's true identity.
Although she was kind of shocked to know about his husband's obsession with women clothes, it was Bruce's first reveal about his long lost identity which he kept safe for years. The two got separated but Linda kept his secret within her and kept her promise.
By this time Bruce was broke when he met Kris Jenner on a blind date and they got hitched within 5 months. Kris took care of his financial crisis and the two initiated many businesses together.
Kris already had three 4children (Kourtney, Kim, Khloé and Robert Kardashians ) from her first marriage. Kris and Bruce had two daughters, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner. According to Bruce, he was quite surprised to became a father with two daughters while he was on hormone therapy. Keeping up with Kardashians was a great success that also brought out a lot of secrets that Bruce didn't want to reveal. In 2013, Bruce decided to separate from Kris and on the following year they filed divorce.
In 2015 Bruce finally decided to come out and express his true self. on an interview with Diane Sawyer, he openly talked about his life and 65 years of struggle as a transgender.
CHECK OUT THE VIDEO HERE
How much does it take to accept one's own self? Apparently a lot, at least for a person who is still in closet. A gay person who is afraid of his secrets, tries to find a sense of love and affection from his community and our community don't show any mercy towards these people. Forcing them to come out, bashing them publicly or humiliating further breaks the person morally. These people when gets married, is forced to prove his manliness. Domestic violence is one such result of showing off dominance. Thus being a part of this family, we need to change our mind, reassess our perspectives so that people feel comfortable to their own skin. Together we can bring the change that unites us because one thing that we lack nowadays is nothing but unity.
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