The season premiere of "I Am Cait," E!'s eight-episode docuseries that documents Caitlyn Jenner's transition from Bruce, captured the moments where many members of the Kardashian/Jenner clan met Caitlyn for the first time, along with Caitlyn's attempts to act as a voice for the transgender community.
In the opening scene, Caitlyn addressed a hand-held camera, makeup-free at 4 a.m. during a sleepless night. She expressed her worries about projecting the right image of transgender people in the media and said she hopes she gets it right.
"We don't want people dying over this, we don't want people murdered over this stuff," she explained. "What a responsibility I have towards this community."
Caitlyn's mother, Esther, and sisters visited her shortly after her facial feminization surgery in the next scene. It was the first time the women would meet Caitlyn. She anxiously waited for her family to arrive, dressed in an all-white pants suit with her mother's birthday card signed for the first time as "Caitlyn."
When Esther arrived, she greeted Caitlyn with open arms and went straight for a hug and her sisters followed suit.
"You're gorgeous," her sister gushed.
During the visit, Caitlyn received a FaceTime call from her daughter Kylie and it was the first time that Kylie would see her father as Caitlyn. She told Kylie she didn't mean to scare her during the video chat.
"You're not scaring me," Kylie told her father. "You look pretty."
Caitlyn invited a therapist over to help answer some questions her mother had about the transition. Esther shared an intimate detail of Caitlyn's youth where she recalled a time when Caitlyn showed discomfort while shopping for boy's clothes. The therapist explained that children start realize that they're transgender as early as the age of five.
During the visit, Caitlyn and her sister went through her closet to pack up all of the clothes Caitlyn wore as Bruce. During the packing, Caitlyn shared that while Kylie, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have all been over to visit since her transition, her other stepchildren (namely Rob, Khloe and Kourtney) have yet to come by. She worried that her choice to live as Caitlyn would affect her family in a negative way.
"I don't want to tear my family apart," she said.
Caitlyn also felt a responsibility to the transgender community, especially after the suicide death of 14-year-old Kyler Prescott, the third San Diego-area transgender teen to die this year. She arranged to meet with Kyler's family and attend his memorial service, and shared her message to other transgender teens going through the same struggles that Kyler faced.
"Seek help," Caitlyn said. "You just need to make it through that day."
See a clip from the episode below.
