The new "Caitlyn" Jenner

Though Wikipedia today (6/7/15) relates that he has not had "sex reassignment surgery" (massive surgical alteration of the genitalia) and says he may never do so, Bruce Jenner is apparently pretty far along on the trail of cosmetic medical moves essential to a pretense of transformation that still cannot achieve reality, even when as thoroughgoing as current medicine can make it.

[Aside:

Recently it was said in a report that he continues to prefer women as sex partners and so when "transed" would become a homosexual woman, though now Wikipedia says he has taken to describing himself as asexual.

/Aside.]

He is, then, a cross-dressing man with a significant hormone imbalance that was at his request brought about for cosmetic effect.

Or, as they say at the porn sites, he is a  "shemale."

The result is certainly striking.

The shoulders are maybe too heavy (?) and I could be missing a point, but there's nothing much to see in this picture that doesn't look like a woman.

And not many 65 year old women - and very likely fewer 65 year old men - with grandchildren (Jenner was born in October, 1949) look like that.

Introducing Caitlyn Jenner

For the most part, conservatives seem to have met the event with derision and anger.

Fox on 'Caitlyn' Jenner

[Aside:

Interesting new PC term: misgender, v.t., to refer to a man dressed up as a woman with masculine pronouns.

Divine, perhaps the most famous cross-dresser of his generation, was asked about the practice of referring to such men with feminine pronouns and, considering himself a homosexual man, rejected it, according to Wikipedia.

All the same, a gay friend years ago insisted to me that "there is no reason to call Divine a he."

/Aside.]

The Weekly Standard

[Aside:

The author attempts satire after the example of Juvenal, but as his piece shows just reporting this story is already satiric in the mold of, say, It Can't Happen Here.

Or maybe something by Swift.

Excerpt:

Then there are Caitlyn’s enthusiasts/enforcers in social media. 

A Twitter mob tarred-and-feathered Nickelodeon star Drake Bell, who was foolish enough to tweet that he’d still call Bruce Bruce. 

(“Ok Drake, your name is now Donna,” tweeted @Onision. “Enjoy being called what you don’t identify as, Donna.”) 

CNN’s media watchdog, Brian Stelter, couldn’t help but notice that some people were “misgendering” Caitlyn. 

“After all,” he tsked, “Jenner’s Vanity Fair cover was very clear, ‘Call me Caitlyn.’ ” 

An ACLU lawyer wrote that even mentioning a trans-person’s “birth-assigned sex is an act of hatred.”

The pronoun police at GLAAD distributed a helpful tip-sheet for journalists who should now see that Caitlyn “is—and always has been—a woman.” 

GLAAD commanded journalists to “avoid the phrase ‘born a man’ when referring to Jenner.” 

And the fierce guardians of free speech in the press did what they always do in such situations—they hung their heads and bleated obediently, cisgenders terrified to misgender. 

The Washington Post’s LGBT/straight etiquette columnist (yes, they have one) highly recommended GLAAD’s tips. 

And a Post colleague went so far as to set up a Twitter bot that would automatically correct anyone using “he” instead of “she” when writing about Brucelyn.

/Aside.]

But not all of them.

Lindsey Graham comes out for Bruce/Caitlyn

He will pay for this.

The story indicates the author, Ian Millhiser, kept a sharp lookout for any "misgendering" by Graham.

He reports there was none.