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Bruce Jenner’s Transgender
Announcement Draws 16.8 Million on ABC News
More than 16.8 million
people tuned in Friday night to watch the ABC News television special in which
Bruce Jenner said that he identified as a woman, according to preliminary
ratings data provided by the network.
Mr. Jenner, the Olympic
gold medalist and longtime member of the Kardashian family, told Diane Sawyer
during the interview that he was making the transition to female from male.
“For all intents and
purposes, I am a woman,” he said. “People look at me differently. They see this
macho male, but this female side is part of me, it’s who I am. I was not
genetically born that way.” For the purpose of the interview, Mr. Jenner said
he preferred to use the pronoun “he.”
The wide-ranging two-hour
interview appeared during a special edition of ABC’s “20/20” news program. It
attracted a much larger audience than the average episode of “20/20,” which is
about 6.2 million.
Bruce Jenner did not just
win the 1976 Olympics decathlon in Montreal, he annihilated the field -
Decathlions.
The highly promoted
interview was noteworthy because Mr. Jenner is among the most prominent people
to come out as transgender.
He said that the
transition, which has captured headlines, was not a publicity stunt.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/business/media/bruce-jenners-transgender-announcement-draws-16-8-million-on-abc-news.html
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