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Title: Lives transformed: do famous transgender people help the cause?
Post by: stephaniec on August 23, 2015, 01:52:01 PM
Lives transformed: do famous transgender people help the cause?

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/23/famous-transgender-help-the-cause-caitlyn-jenner-laverne-cox-kellie-maloney

The Guardian/Elizabeth Day@elizabday Sunday 23 August 2015 04.00 EDT

"When the Vanity Fair journalist Buzz Bissinger was sent to interview former athlete Bruce Jenner, he had little idea of how big 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."