Caitlyn Jenner

American media personality and retired decathlete

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Born 1949
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2011

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Updated 2026-06-17

The Olympic decathlon champion who became the world's most visible face of a transgender coming-out, then pivoted into Republican politics and cable news — a trajectory that turns every chapter of American culture war into biography.

Biography

About

Born in 1949, Jenner played college football until a knee injury ended that path. A coach steered her toward decathlon, and six years later she won gold at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, setting a world record and landing as an all-American hero. That launched decades in television, film, auto racing, and business, including a Playgirl cover. Three marriages produced six children, and from 2007 she appeared on Keeping Up with the Kardashians alongside Kris Jenner and her blended family of Kardashian-Jenner kids. In April 2015 she came out as transgender, announced the name Caitlyn that July, and…

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Caitlyn Jenner

saidFeb 2016

I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.

— Speech at the University of Pennsylvania (February 2016).

Caitlyn Jenner

saidundated

I think, like a lot of people on this issue, I have really changed my thinking here to, ‘I don’t ever want to stand in front of anybody’s happiness.’ That’s not my job, okay?

— On The Ellen Degeneres Show.

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