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’s ‘disappointing’ trans women in girls’ sports team comments blasted by charities
metro.co.ukMermaids and Stonewall have condemned Caitlyn Jenner’s controversial stance of opposing trans girls competing in girls’ sports teams. Former Olympian Caitlyn, who came out as trans in 2015, declared athletes who are born male shouldn’t be able to compete in girls’ sports competitions and later doubled down on her opinions on social media. ‘I oppose biological boys who are trans competing in girls’ sports in school,’ she told TMZ. ‘It just isn’t fair, and we have to protect girls’ sports in our schools.’ ‘It’s an issue of fairness and we need to protect girls’ sports in our schools,’ she tweeted.
Mermaids, a UK charity that supports gender variant and transgender youth, expressed its ‘disappointment’ in Caitlyn’s remarks.
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