She added the caption, “Can’t believe it’s been one year since the @vanityfair cover”.
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“So happy, best year of my life, ‘ she wrote, adding hashtags ‘#happyfirstbirthday” and ‘#learningtolove’.
During these conversations and through interviews conducted at her Malibu home, Jenner offered candid reflections of the games and what it meant to be an Olympic champion. “Can’t wait for you to get to know her/me”.
Immediately after Caitlyn Jenner was introduced on the cover of Vanity Fair, she was thrust into the spotlight. She thanked Sawyer and ABC for helping her to reveal her truth to the world and summed her year, saying it’s been “quite a ride”. From the controversy surrounding her receiving the Arthur Ashe Courage award, to being named one of Glamour magazines women of the year in 2015, to the drama that her transition caused among her famous family, Jenner has become a media magnet. Despite her controversy, Jenner’s social presence is huge, boasting almost four million Twitter followers and 1.5 million fans on Facebook.
“I had proved myself as a man, and I still have this person living inside me that I had never really dealt with”, she says in the video, retrieving her medal from what appears to be a junk drawer.
Adams also pointed to the spate of anti-LGBT legislation like North Carolina’s “bathroom bill”, which requires people to use the restroom that corresponds to the gender on their birth certificate, as evidence that “we still have such a long way to go”. The woman who was once a shadow of the Karadshian family, is certainly not in the shadows anymore. It’s tucked away in her drawer and she hasn’t given it much of a thought in many, many years.
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“Trans people deserve something vital, they deserve your respect”, Jenner said in her speech. Forty years ago, Caitlyn Jenner offered one of the great athletic feats in modern era.
