Bruce Jenner speaks for the first time about his transformation in an ABC exclusive sit-down interview with Diane Sawyer Friday
The two-hour interview special with the 1976 Olympic decathlon champion and estranged patriarch of television's Kardashian clan is expected to touch on transgenderism and reports that he may be transitioning to a woman, the Associated Press reported.
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The organization GLAAD offered the following information on what transgender means and how gender identity is different from sexual orientation.
READ GLAAD's Transgender 101 here
Here are 5 Things to Know:
- What does transgender mean? Transgender is an umbrella term for people whose gender identity differs from what is typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. For transgender people, the sex they were assigned at birth and their own internal gender identity do not match.
- How does it differ from sexual orientation? Gender identity is your own, internal, personal sense of being a man or a woman. Sexual orientation describes a person's enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attraction to another person (for example: straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual).
- Transgender people are trying to bring their bodies into alignment with their gender identity.
- People under the "transgender umbrella" may describe themselves as transgender and transsexual – though there is a wide variety of terms. Use the term preferred by the individual.
- Transgender people may or may not alter their bodies hormonally and/or surgically. Being transgender is not dependent upon medical procedures.
Here is more information from GLAAD about transgender people, basic terminology and statistics.
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