Bruce Jenner to Caitlyn Jenner

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(06-05-2015, 10:50 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: I appreciate you finally explaining your issue with my statement. I realize that you claim that you know the definition of "gender", but saying she is a man would suggest otherwise. 

Gender is a social construct. If I identify as a gender and live as that gender, then I am that gender. If you can explain how Caitlyn isn't a woman, I'd love to hear it. Especially since you're using "she" and calling her a man in the same sentence.

Also, I too heard Caitlyn say in her interview that she privately identified as a woman for years before her "coming out". Having read up on this and knowing multiple trans people, I know that it isn't right to misgender before the person has announced it. As a member of the public and not a personal confidant of Caitlyn, it would have been incorrect for me to identify her as a woman prior to her stating it publicly.  That's why her public revelation is the correct time identify her as a woman. 

If you disagree, as a trans person you know. 

I had no "issue" with your statement (actually it was a question); it just made no sense as posed, regardless how clear you asserted it was.

Why are you trying so hard to make us disagree? We both agree that she was a man the 1st 64 years of her life; we just disagree about the last few weeks.

It just appears your answer is they change gender when the world knows it; not when they feel.

Enough of this. Let me end this in a way that will make us both happy: You're right.