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Updated 10.30pm
CAITLYN JENNER ACCEPTED the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs on last night, while urging acceptance for others who are transgender.
She received a standing ovation from some of the sporting world’s biggest stars after her 10-minute speech during the annual awards honouring the year’s top athletes and moments.
“This transition has been harder on me than anything I can imagine,” said Jenner.
Noting her powerful celebrity platform, the 1976 Olympic decathlon champion and current reality TV star vowed “to do whatever I can to reshape the landscape of how transgender people are viewed and treated.”
Reaction
The reaction to her speech has been huge.
Jenner posted a photo this evening of her preparation for the big speech:
‘I never wanted to hurt anyone’
Abby Wambach of the US soccer team that won the Women’s World Cup presented the trophy to Jenner, whose voice broke as she thanked members of her famous family, including stepdaughters Kim and Khloe Kardashian. Tears welled in the eyes of Jenner’s younger daughter, Kylie, whose sister, Kendall, wiped a tear from her eye.
“I never wanted to hurt anyone else, most of all my family and my kids,” said Jenner, wiping her eye.
She admitted that until earlier this year she had never met another transgender person.
The 65-year-old told the audience about trans teenagers who are bullied, beaten up, murdered or who take their own lives. Jenner mentioned two people by name whose deaths particularly touched her.
“Trans people deserve something vital, they deserve your respect,” she said. “From that respect comes a more compassionate community.”
Jenner urged the crowd that included football, basketball, baseball and hockey superstars to remember what they say and do is “absorbed and observed by millions of people, especially young people.”
My plea for you tonight is one join me in making this one of your issues as well.
Many in the crowd watched intently as Jenner spoke with little reaction on their faces.
If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead because the reality is I can take it. But for thousands of kids out there coming to terms with the reality of who they are they shouldn’t have to take it.
‘OK girls, I get it’
A video narrated by “Mad Men” actor Jon Hamm traced Jenner’s life from the time when she was known as Bruce Jenner to her current transition. She mentioned she once considered ending her own life with a gun she owned.
She was shown applying makeup, buttoning her blouse in her closet and fastening the strap on her heeled shoes.
With her trembling hands clasped in front of her, Jenner joked with the audience about her struggle to select the cream gown she wore.
“OK girls, I get it,” she said, as the audience laughed. “You’ve got to get the shoes, the hair, the makeup, it was exhausting. And the fashion police, please be kind on me. I’m new at this.”
- Additional reporting Aoife Barry
Ultimately FG wanted to use this inquiry to throw mud at FF just before the next general election, looks like it may have backfired! And they run the country?
Unless individuals involved are held accountable as done in the US, this enquiry is of no use, a waste of our money and will tell us less than what we already know.
There was no accountability in the us rob. One guy went to jail. The rest for the most part MADE money during the slump and are back to taking the same insane risks with depositors money
At this stage I’d settle for one. But that will never happen. this charade is a waste of time and taxpayers money, money we don’t have to waste. It’s an insult to the people who are shouldering the burden of the bank collapse.
ie: us!
As most politicians in this country couldn’t find their own hole with both hands and a map I don’t hold out much hope for a banking enquirey
It’s pretty clear at this stage that rather then trying to find out what exactly happened Enda the small minded individual wants to use it to but the boot into FF.
and that would be a problem why exactly ? Considering the dopey electorate seems to have forgotten who ruined this country i think it’s timely.
They also seem to have forgot the top 3 parties were in near full agreement on economic policy.
We even bragged about it thru the IDA touting it as policy stability ergo we were a good investment
CAB should be doing this.
In most cases, even the wonton fraud ( to u and me) was perfectly legal.
That’s what you get when your industry purchases the political leadership of the western world thru campaign donations..you get the laws you want.
There’s nothing to find out. We know what happened.
This is about pro bailout political hacks, who’ve done nothing to stop it happening again, getting their 5 min of fame doing faux outrage grilling “bankers”.
Most people on this don’t have a clue about economics or finance anyway they won’t even know the right questions to ask
At least Mac Sharry can ask his father.
Expectations of competence, smartness and agility in this Government have disappeared. They are so diabolically incoherent and incompetent that the Oireachtas is in the tax defaulters list. As far as this Inquiry is concerned, it is likely to be nothing more than a country club debate by the bewildered into the affairs of the blind and they have about as much capacity to control that as a two year old infant has over its bowels.
” but now its attempts to reverse this threaten to undermine the whole process of finding out what happened to the Irish banking system.”
Well was that not the whole idea from the beginning. You do not think they want the sheeple to learn the whole truth, do you?
You got to think devious here, think like a psychopath, if you want to learn truth.
The inquiry should only have one question to ask:
Who told Patrick Neary to look the other way?
It was impossible for a man in his position not to know what was going on…a child of ten would have known something was up…this defence of incompetence is a complete load of boll*x
If the motley crew of politicians on the banking enquiry organise properly into a search Party, they might even locate famous missing Bank Guarantee letters.
Bertie could be roped in for the looking-up-every-tree part of the search around Dublin 2.
And why the hell must the crew have a Government majority? It’s not as if Inquiry findings are to be voted upon!
A shambles from the start.
Doubt if anything new emerges. Inquiry will probably conclude that Taoiseach Cowen and late Mr Lenihan had few other workable options on night of bank guarantee, other than what was actually done. Probably would have been too risky for Ireland’s economy and credibility abroad to tell Bondholders to get stuffed. Greece succeeded here where Ireland failed, albeit later in the process of saving Euro.
Angela better remember this, in the heel of the hunt!
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