Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner told ABC's Diane Sawyer that he identifies as a woman. Sawyer asked the 65-year-old reality star, "Are you a woman?'' Jenner responded, "Yes, for all intents and purposes, I am a woman.''
"People look at me differently,'' Jenner said. "They can see you as this macho male, but my heart and my soul, and everything that I do in life, it is part of me, that female side is part of me. That's who I am.''
Jenner's interview on ABC's 20/20 put to rest rumors and speculation about Jenner's changing appearance.
"I was not genetically born that way,'' Jenner told Sawyer. "As of now, I have all the male parts and all that kind of stuff. In a lot of ways we are different, OK? But we still identify as female. And that's very hard for Bruce Jenner to say. Because why? I don't want to disappoint people.''
During the interview Jenner revealed he started hormone-replacement therapy in the 80s, but stopped because he was afraid of hurting his children.
Jenner did not talk about pronoun preference on-air, but Sawyer reported that Kenner requested that the public use the familiar "he" and "him" for now. Jenner would not reveal the name he has chosen for himself.
Watch a clip of the interview here:
