Posted on 07/16/2015 8:25:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Caitlyn Jenner tearfully thanked her family while accepting the Arthur Ashe Courage Award on Wednesday at the ESPYs in Los Angeles.
The 65-year-old honoree made her first major public appearance at the awards show since announcing her transitioning to a woman during an April tell-all interview with Diane Sawyer.
Caitlyn got tearful toward the end of her 10-minute acceptance speech in which she gave a heartfelt appeal on behalf of trans youth.
'Trans people deserve something vital,' she said. 'They deserve your respect.'
Her speech was preceded by a 15-minute video detailing her journey and featuring interviews with her mother Esther and model daughter Kendall that was narrated by Mad Men star Jon Hamm.
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They ‘deserve’ what they bring on themselves for refusing psychological treatment.
People earn my respect. Putting on a dress and lipstick doesn’t even begin to earn it.
These people are disgusting freaks!
Ain't gonna happen. Behave yourself and you may get my pity.
Respect is earned. What exactly about shamelessly parading your blended family for years on TV to amass a veritable fortune in the face of all propriety and decency warrants respect?
You deserve respect because you’re a multimillionaire with some deep seeded psychological problems? There is nothing about your entire life that resonates with the common man or woman, frankly.
With regard to your ESPY award, you should treat that with the same knowledge Obama has with respect to the Nobel Peace Prize he ‘earned’ after barely having been elected.
No matter how much money you spend or how much help and support you get, you’ll never be able to change the chromosomes, and you’ll never get a man that accepts you as a real woman. You might get a man, but he will be in it for the money, honey.
The only thing moving was my lunch, back up my throat in revulsion.
“Identity Groups” do not “deserve respect.”
Individuals earn respect based on their proved history of behaving morally and ethically as defined by a set of absolute values.
“And now.....the disappearing ball trick!”
This is Ancient Rome and the resident of the White Hut is Caligula.
He doesn’t just think he’s a woman. He thinks he’s a YOUNG woman.
i need to accept a person that cannot even accept themselves as they are... Really?
Really/
Crocodile Dundee respects them!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guy gets his penis chopped off and his body mutilated.. now wants to tell the world what to do and think.
That’s what I’m getting from it. Thing is, that’s Michelle’s gig isn’t it?
The “tears” were fake and the Bookies aren’t paying off on the Prop Bet.
Shouldn’t people like him be admitted to a mental hospital?
What is so brave about going with their mental illness, slapping a couple of bags in your chest, taking hormones to in the end become a lesbian she male?
What sport is that again?
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