By SheelaR

I didn’t watch Diane Sawyers’ interview with Bruce Jenner, but my friends were watching and sending me text messages the entire time, and… While I fully support your transition, everything thing you’ve done up to this point, has been the actions of a coward. Having said that…you really should be a woman if that’s how you feel, but it should not have taken 65 years, three wives, six biological children, and four step-children to get to this point. None of us are perfect and we all make mistakes that impact the lives of the ones we love, but what is an acceptable cost? How many broken hearts before the it’s my life train stops?

When you decided to transition in the eighties, there shouldn’t have  been any more wives and children to hurt. That was the opportune time to make this precious journey you’re on. Instead…you drug another woman and more children into a life that you didn’t even love…one mired in confused. You deserve to have your mind and body on the page, but you could have eliminated some of this heartache by not creating more unsuspecting victims. It’s wonderful that your family seem to be supporting you, but you can’t tell me that tears, not those of joy, haven’t been shed. In life, heartbreak is inevitable, but there are times when it’s preventable.

You’re no hero to me, Bruce. Other brave souls had already paved the way for you, but you were too busy being wrapped in your own agenda to notice. You don’t deserve to be treated like a trans-superhero. You’re not in the league of transgendered pioneers such as, Christine Jorgensen, Dr. Marci Bowers, Renée Richards, Kim Coco Iwamoto, Michael Dillion, and Roberta Cowell….your journey and life has been one steeped selfishness.

I completely respect your right and innate need to be the woman you’ve always thought you were, but I shall not be handing you any kudos or slaps on your back, instead…I’m choosing to empathize with the women and children that have surely been hurt by this. Your Olympic gold medal status and fame doesn’t negate the responsibility you had to your families. I’m not even going to get into the whole messy reality show/fame whore aspect of it all…I shall spare you my disdain for the entire Kardashian/Jenner fame machine. Ratings seem to be just as important as your transition…and therein lies the problem.

I hope that you can finally find the peace and happiness that you’ve been looking for, it has been 65 years in the making. More importantly, I hope that your former wives and children can do the same. I suspect that they need time to heal too.