Caitlyn Marie Jenner (born William Bruce Jenner; October 28, 1949) is an American television personality and retired Olympic gold medal–winning decathlete.
Jenner played college football for the Graceland Yellowjackets before incurring a knee injury that required surgery. Convinced by Olympic decathlete Jack Parker's coach, L. D. Weldon, to try the decathlon, Jenner won the men's decathlon event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, setting a third successive world record and gaining fame as "an all-American hero".
Given the unofficial title of "world's greatest athlete", Jenner established a career in television, film, writing, auto racing, business, and as a Playgirl cover model.
Caitlyn Jenner responds to Joy Behar's apology for repeatedly misgendering her: I’m not about cancel culture
pinkvilla.comCaitlyn Jenner, who recently announced that she is running for governor in California, has responded to ABC’s daytime The View’s host Joy Behar after being repeatedly misgendered by her on ABC’s daytime talk show.
In a discussion on Friday, Behar referred to Jenner as “he” throughout the segment. The latter, who is an Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete and a popular TV personality, publicly came out as a trans woman in 2015 and since then has been very vocal about trans lives.After the show went live, Behar received a lot of backlash for using the wrong gender while addressing Jenner.
The host apologized for the same by saying, “I think I just didn’t get enough sleep last night.” She also added that she had no intention of mixing up and.
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