Katelynn on Caitlyn: I Am Cait Through the Eyes of TV's First Trans Reality Star

http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/07/29/i-am-cait-through-eyes-tvs-first-trans-reality-star-katelynn-cusanelli-mtvs-re

The Advocate/byKatelynn Cusanelli July 29 2015 6:15 AM ET

Katelynn today

"In August of 2008 on a rainy day in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, I began filming the 21st season of MTV's The Real World. At 24 years old, I was the first openly transgender person in the show's then-16-year history. Only five weeks earlier, I had undergone sexual reassignment surgery."