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[Stray]

You are very correct...this was the one thing that bothered me about the publicity. Jenner can afford the best and will make a tremendous amount of money as Caitlyn. And, in Jenner's circle, transgendered persons are accepted, meaning the entertainment world. I counsel for a living and many people seeking SRS are forced to go to less than reputable doctors seeking help and results sometimes are horrible and maiming. People do not make money from their surgery, they just want to feel peace and love. If you work on Wall Street, as an example, you are not going to meet acceptance and support in the same way Jenner did. In many areas transgendered people are beaten and ridiculed. The Jenner experience is not the typical story.

[Vickiv]

Greenhouse.....
I agree what you said. People only see the celebrity not the suffering of the ordinary person.

[lulu2]

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@DARING GREATLY wrote:

Watching her looking like a woman but talking like Bruce in his voice, makes it appear more she is in drag.   I don't mean that disrespectfully, but the voice makes it hard to appeciate the changes.

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You are absolutely right.  The video looked like an Saturday Night Live skit.

[Lucky Charm]

wow!  I just watched the link (3X in a row!). 

She really has transpired.  I felt like it was easier to see Bruce transitioning into a woman.  But now she is a woman. 

A very feminine, frilly woman.  It is weird (for me!) to see the full on outward appearance. 

She looks soooo much like half of 'hollywood' (not Hollywood residents) women.  All the same look.....

Just being honest.  Don't know if I'll watch the show.  (I enjoyed Chaz' very much)  I changed my television choices and want to keep it that way.

I haven't read the Caitlyn Jenner Vanity Fair article (thinnest VF I ever remember!). I just read the article about Nancy Sinatra Sr.--(97 years old!)  It's an issue from January.  I'm so far behind in reading.....!

[Moonchilde]

Some transgendered, transitioning either way, are lucky to have plausible-sounding voices to get by in their transitioned-to gender. I feel they are very fortunate. Whether it's chromosomes, surgery, hormones or whatever it takes, *sounding* like your gender is maybe the most important obvious presentation a transgendered person has, because if you sound like one gender and look like another, people know. I think most transgendered people would hope that strangers would not know. It would make their lives simpler to be taken at face value right away.

[muttmom]

I have to agree with the posters that said she looks like and drag queen. I watched The Birdcage recently.  Nathan Lane looked more feminine.

[Suziepeach]

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@muttmom wrote:

I have to agree with the posters that said she looks like and drag queen. I watched The Birdcage recently.  Nathan Lane looked more feminine.

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Such a funny movie!   Nathan Lane and Robin Williams were just meant to be cast together.   

[shoekitty]

I heard her voice  once, with Diane Sawyer.  Lots of women have deep voices!  Look at Kathleen Turner, Sally kellerman, Rachel Ray, etc.  Maybe she will work on it, or doesn't care.