Bruce Jenner's Changing Gender Stereotypes

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This has gone too far now with the gender bender game. I’m a little sick people identifying different than male or female. Thanks to Bruce Jenner now that he is Caitlyn it’s just gotten worse now. When I heard about Bruce changing genders, I thought that was impossible to do. After Bruce became Caitlyn and abandoned his athletic legacy and becoming a TV personality on the Kardashians. Now there is a majority of Millennials that want to be something else than male or female. Bruce Jenner change genders was affected of my life because how and why he wanted to do it. Before Caitlyn he was a handsome, athletic person that won the 1976 decathlon, 39 years later he became Caitlyn. It is just confusing of pronouns to use like he or she, but I call

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