Caitlyn Jenner ESPYs | LIVE 7-15-15

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The proudest moments of my career have come representing my country land of the free home of the brave the part of being an American is understanding that we can always get better Arthur Ashe knew that and that's why he worked so hard to shape a legacy of Education equal rights encourage so let's talk about a way we can make our country better let's talk about an issue not enough of us stand up for at some point in their lives twenty percent of transgender people are homeless they get bullied assaulted and murdered at dramatically higher rates than the general public and one recent study said that forty-one percent of them attempt suicide at some point in their lives now though there's a new story the story of someone whose mission isn't to bring attention to herself but the ones who truly need it i never saw Bruce trying to compete in Olympic Games I got to know the name from growing up as a sports fan and watching television like all of us.
I never knew the real story I hope watching it does to you what it did to me surprise you teach you and help make our country a better place to live and a better model for the world when you go through your life with secrets constantly it's just after awhile wears on you and all this week we've been talking about what we're calling the mail mystique Bruce Jenner already accounts were how do you describe what that is I was kind of living my life for other people it felt like for all those people who said all I want to be like Bruce Jenner you know I couldn't let them down at one point in my life.
Am I gonna get sick of all the distractions and have to turn around and actually deal with me as a person who I am.
That was a long long long long road.
We first met Bruce Jenner 39 years ago he was introduced to us as the favorite in the Olympic to castle.
Competing for that magical title greatest athlete in the world loose i think came along at the right time.
Everything about Bruce was something that people could relate to or want to ascend 2 i'm going to sacrifice anything I have to do to win the Olympic Games generals 26 years old four years earlier after finishing 10th in the nineteen seventy-two of a fix he dedicated his entire life to prepare yourself for one more shot.
Ankama selling insurance on the side to make ends meet he trained on his own with no coach or program just a dream that doubled as an obsession winning gold was all he thought about it meanwhile his timing couldn't have been more perfect outside the bubble Jenner had built for himself.
America was coming out of a decade terminal.
It was the country's.
Bicentennial people were looking for a hero to believe it and there he was on our televisions that something for all see then we'll be one of the focuses of our attention for the next two days Bruce Jenner you remember.
It was an all-american story a magnetic cosmically gifted athlete you couldn't take your eyes off of him.
Here's a guy put all of his effort into 10 different disciplines and then bang two days he was a dispersed let it go.
It's beyond.
The time he gets some 1,500 meters didn't know that I was closed.
I million.
Boosted in 1976 is one of the seminal moments in sports I max break.
I didn't run 70-mile weeks for years leading up to the games to jog the 1500 meters.
Running that turned out that the lien bone and I can just hear this little gold metal jingling in my back.
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World record.
On the trap that day.
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It was like a coronation the crowd military through student.
Has to get anybody.
75 all these people.
He was a portrait of.
Unconditional joy.
One of the millions watching any sense of the agony and the anguish that lay beneath the ironic part is the whole world thinks that they know who I am mad they know me and I'm the big hero and all that sort of stuff and they do nothing about me in so many ways.
William Bruce Jenner seems like any other young boy growing up in the suburbs of New York in the nineteen fifties but ever since he could remember he struggled with in his own words confusion about his gender the feeling he was a female in a male body.
I've always known that I was different than everybody else I could play that time male gender role.
But I always felt female and that really scared me he didn't have a lot of self-confidence I think he had a hard time relating to people it made him very reserved very closed when he found out he could run faster than anybody else that gave him that feeling of succeeding.
In the beginning sports simply helped him fit in but after the Olympics they transform him into of all things the epitome of masculinity.
Not to mention marketability i spent a good part of my life getting ready for that day I worked out a lot a lot of weed exposure system helps you always seemed at ease with fame 2013 on let me tell you this movie is nothing but his hardest rolls away from the cameras the gender dysphoria was always there silently torment to you the pain only growing worse.
Relationships for me were always tough I always felt like I was hiding myself from everybody the only way I could get through life.
Was by distractions whatever is going to continue to work i did not want to deal with myself I think one thing that you learn pretty quickly as a trans person is to perform so that you make people comfortable that's so necessary in a world where we're often told that we should be ashamed of ourselves.
You could open up to us because he couldn't tell us his deepest feelings it just broke my heart and I had no idea.
Of all people.
Your mother should have a better insight than that behavior is awfully good at hiding my life is a celebrity made the struggle even more severe the mirage even more painful to marriages fell apart and a rift with his children only widened as they grew up isolated myself all the time I want to work and they came back to my house to never really left don't humiliate I would feel like a liar all the time is 2x I wasted a lot of my life and nobody knew really Who I am.
In the late nineteen eighties generous started the process of transitioning to live as a woman taking hormones and changing his appearance but the fear of what it might do to his family was too overwhelming and he stopped I can't imagine looking into a mirror every day and the reflection is not what you're feeling inside and I it's hard for me to understand how painful that would be his third marriage and a new family and years of isolation on get on your bike fell apart and also rejuvenated his faith.
The true reality though was still.
In 2013 the marriage broke up now in his sixties with all ten of his children groan Jenner retreated back into solid behind walls hidden away from the meat pity from the world.
It was an escape but also a way to finally confront and embrace his identity could have lived entire life and let everyone believe the lie believe the myth of the American Hero.
It takes an incredible amount of courage and strength to go against the grain of what people want you to be of a decision I got to start doing some things to make me feel better about myself so just after dawn on a sunday morning in january of last year.
Gender went in for a procedure to reduce his Adam's apple the last shred of what he kept private for so long was about to be consumed by the public I go in there and of course when i leave the place the paparazzi is here.
I knew the media's gonna like try.
There was a picture of my dad crying in his car that was really really hard to see because my dad does not cry I think in any situation people forget that were actual human beings.
I'm thinking you know what you got a gun.
Under the easy way out no more pain no more problems I can see how people are driven to that because you don't want to deal with life anymore he's a public person.
How could you leave his authentic life the life he felt he was always meant to live as a woman.
Privately I came to a kind of a revelation . of all the things that I have done in my life that maybe this is my column computer thank you for doing this it's going to be an emotional rollercoaster but some how many to take my struggle throw it out in front of the world maybe i can bring understanding on this subject.
It's time that I do my best are you a woman.
Yes for all intensive purposes I am a woman I've been do this term has been very G to think of someone not being able to be free for 65 years heartbreaking.
And to finally be free that must be the greatest feeling in the world.
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39 years after we were introduced the world is meeting Caitlyn Jenner again.
And for the first time we never knew what lay the knees all along but now we can see the journey she took is what's made the stage so enormous just like in 1976.
The timing couldn't be more perfect.
What's so powerful to me about Caitlyn Jenner story is that it inspires each of us say that it's never too late to be who you truly are.
This is an issue that we can deal with it.
This is not something that people have to dial.
She is receiving them metal and never thought to get it ever be more correct.
That I was wrong.
I am now.
Even more friends and believe me I'm not forcing anything gaming.
A better relationship with my giant.
Bruce Kaitlynn there one ladies and gentlemen the courageous the stunning Caitlyn Jenner.
Wow I have to talk him for that thank you so much.
It is so wonderful to be here tonight.
Now the last few months have been a world wind of so many different experiences and emotions but to tell you the truth it seems like every time I turn around in life.
I'm putting myself in these high-pressure situations competing in the games raising a family but I've never felt more pressure than i ever have felt in my life.
Then over the last couple of months picking out this outfit okay girls I get it.
You got to get the shoes the hair the makeup the whole process it was exhausting and next the fashion police please be kind on me I'm new at this but anyway and i just want to take a quick shout-out to our soccer team that that they have absolutely lays you clean up very well.
Well the real truth is that before just a few weeks to two months ago I had never met anybody else who was trans who was like me i had never met a transperson ever as you saw i dealt with my situation on my own in private and that turn this journey into an already incredible education it's been eye-opening inspiring but also frightening all across this country right now all across the world at this very moment there are young people coming to terms with being transgendered they're learning that they're different and they're trying to figure out how to handle that on top of every other problem that a teenager has they're getting bully.
They're getting beaten up there getting murdered and the committee suicide the numbers that you just heard before staggering but there are the reality of what it's like to be trans today.
Just last month the body of 17 year old Mercedes Williamson a transfer going woman of color was found in a field in Mississippi stabbed to death i also want to tell you about Sam taba fifteen-year-old transgender young man from Bloomfield Michigan in early April sam took his own life now Sam story hostage in particular because his death came just a few days before ABC aired my interview with Diane Sawyer every time something like this happens people wonder could it have been different if spotlighting this issue with more attention could have changed the way things happen we'll never know if there's one thing I do know about my life it is the power of the spotlight sometimes it gets overwhelming but with attention comes responsibility as a group as athletes how you conduct your lives.
What'd you say what'd you do is absorbed and observed by millions of people especially young people i know i'm clear with my responsibility and going forward to tell my story the right way for me to keep learning to do whatever I can to reshape the landscape of how trans issues are view how trans people are treated and then more broadly to promote a very simple idea.
Accepting people for who they are accepting people difference my plea to you tonight is to join me and making this one of your issues as well how do we start we start with education i was fortunate enough to meet Arthur Ashe a few times and I know how important education was to him learn as much as you can about another person to understand them better I know the people in this room have respect for hard work for training.
For going through something difficult to achieve the outcome that you desire.
I trained hard i completed hard and for that people respected me but this transition has been harder on me than anything I could imagine and that's the case for so many others besides me for that reason alone trans people deserve something vital they deserve your respect and from that.
And from that respect comes a more compassionate community a more empathetic society and a better world for all of us there have been so many who have traveled this road before me from sports renee Richards to chaz bono to Laverne Cox and many others.
Janet mock whose where there's tonight and I want to thank them all public as well as the ESPYs in the later thrashing his family for giving me this platform to start this next phase of my journey I also want to acknowledge all the young trans athletes who are out there given the chance to play sports as Ruth a really are and now and now as of this week it appears that trans people will soon be serving in the military that's a great idea we have come a long way but we have a lot of work to do.
I'd like to thank personally my buddy Diane Sawyer you know you can only tell your story the first time once and I and you did it so authentically and so gracefully and me and the community is so thankful for that and I thank you so much that I'm so proud to have you as a friend.
Here comes the tough part I like to thank my family now the biggest fear of always had it coming out.
As I never wanted to hurt anyone else.
Most of all.
My family and my kids always wanted my children to be so proud of their dad for what he was able to accomplish in his you guys have given so much back to me you can be so much support i am so so grateful to have all of you in my life thank you and certainly last but not least my mother my mom.
Who just a little over weekend little over a week ago had to have surgery and didn't think she was going to make it and but she's here with me tonight to share this night now.
You know I always thought that I got my courage and determination from my dad who landed on omaha beach for all the way through World War two but you know what I'm realizing now mom I think I got all those qualities from you love you very much.
I'm so glad you're here to just share this with Nick.
You know it is an honor to have the word courage associated with my life on this night another word comes to mind and that is fortunate i owe a lot to sports it showed me the world it's giving me an identity if someone wanted to bully me well you know what I was the MVP of the football team that just wasn't going to be a problem and the same thing goes tonight if you want to call me names make jokes doubt my intentions go ahead because the reality is i can take it but for the thousands of kids out there coming to terms with being true to who they are they shouldn't have to take it so for the people out there wondering what this is all about whether it's about courage or controversy or publicity but i'll tell you what it's all about it's about what happens from here it's not just about one person it's about thousands of people not just about being it's about all of us accepting one another we're all different that's not a bad thing that's a good thing.
And while it may not be easy to get past the things you always don't understand.
I want to prove that it is absolutely possible if we only do it together.
Thank you so much for this platform.
Thank you so much for this honor bestowed on myself and my family thank you.
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