--- title: Bruce Jenner ‘Is in Seventh Heaven’ About Sharing His Transition Story description: Everyone was buzzing about Bruce Jenner's recent revelation that he's transitioning from male to female at the GLAAD Media Awards in New York City Saturday.... canonical: https://time.com/3853408/bruce-jenner-kardashian-transgender-glad-awards-kim-kendall-jenner/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-11T05:31:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T07:05:02.788Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Bruce Jenner 'Is in Seventh Heaven' About Sharing His Story og:description: "It was a tectonic shift for the trans community" og:url: https://time.com/3853408/bruce-jenner-kardashian-transgender-glad-awards-kim-kendall-jenner/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bruce Jenner 'Is in Seventh Heaven' About Sharing His Story twitter:description: "It was a tectonic shift for the trans community" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Bruce Jenner 'Is in Seventh Heaven' About Sharing His Transition Story by [Jeff Nelson / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Jeff Nelson / People May 11, 2015 5:31 AM UTC by [Jeff Nelson / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Jeff Nelson / People May 11, 2015 5:31 AM UTC Everyone was buzzing about [Bruce Jenner](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,personsTax:BruceJenner,00.html)‘s recent revelation that he’s [transitioning](http://www.people.com/article/bruce-jenner-living-as-woman-interview) from male to female at the GLAAD Media Awards in New York City Saturday. “That was a culture-changing moment,” GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis tells PEOPLE of the [soul-baring _20/20_ interview](http://www.people.com/article/bruce-jenner-interview-diane-sawyer) Jenner, 65, did with Diane Sawyer last month. “It was a tectonic shift for the trans community. For the first time, about 20 million people in America met somebody who’s transgender. You can’t really do that in any other way or with somebody who’s even better suited for it because Bruce has always been a champion in the past and is now a new kind of champion.” Jenner will also be starring in [his own docuseries ](http://www.people.com/article/bruce-jenner-docuseries-e-transition-transgender) on E! to detail his transition, _About Bruce_, which is set to debut on July 26. [Jennifer Finney Boylan](http://www.people.com/article/transgender-mom-jennifer-finney-boylan-talks-bruce-jenner), an out trans advocate and author (and also the cochair of GLAAD’s board of directors), is consulting on the eight-part series and says Jenner “is in seventh heaven” gearing up for the show and about sharing his truth. “Imagine what it’s like to have a secret your whole life, then to unveil the secret in this very public way,” says Boylan. “It’s scary, but it’s also someone who is feeling jubilant.” One of the biggest challenges going into the series is how to broach such private matters, Boylan adds. “There are a lot of things that people are curious about that are in fact none of their business, which is exactly the same as the sex lives of anybody, whether they’re straight or gay, cis or trans,” says Boylan. “There’s a kind of cart blanche to ask kind of anything, and trans people who want to be accepted and who hope to create that acceptance through education have kind of felt obligated to answer every embarrassing question. “So I think that as the show is done, it’ll be a challenge to be educational and to normalize the experience without going into every salacious detail – that’s the balance that has to be achieved.” [_This article originally appeared on PEOPLE.com_](http://www.people.com/article/bruce-jenner-glaad-media-awards-jenny-boylan) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3853408/bruce-jenner-kardashian-transgender-glad-awards-kim-kendall-jenner/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3853408/bruce-jenner-kardashian-transgender-glad-awards-kim-kendall-jenner/"},"headline":"Bruce Jenner 'Is in Seventh Heaven' About Sharing His Transition Story","datePublished":"2015-05-11T05:31:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:05:02.788Z","description":"Everyone was buzzing about Bruce Jenner's recent revelation that he's transitioning from male to female at the GLAAD Media Awards in New York City Saturday....","url":"https://time.com/3853408/bruce-jenner-kardashian-transgender-glad-awards-kim-kendall-jenner/","keywords":["celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeff Nelson / People"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3853408/bruce-jenner-kardashian-transgender-glad-awards-kim-kendall-jenner/","name":"Bruce Jenner 'Is in Seventh Heaven' About Sharing His Transition Story"}}]}] ```