--- title: Caitlyn Jenner's 'I Am Cait' Hires 3 Transgender Consultants description: E! moves to keep the television series in line canonical: https://time.com/3968180/caitlyn-jenner-tv-show-transgender-consultants/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-22T18:31:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:29:28.883Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Caitlyn Jenner's 'I Am Cait' Uses Top Transgender Consultants og:description: E! moves to keep the television series in line og:url: https://time.com/3968180/caitlyn-jenner-tv-show-transgender-consultants/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88d02594a11bf3c8/69885bf9196cf41aa4037369/caitlyn-jenner8.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Caitlyn Jenner accepts the Arthur Ashe Courage Award during The 2015 ESPYS in Los Angeles on July 15, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Caitlyn Jenner's 'I Am Cait' Uses Top Transgender Consultants twitter:description: E! moves to keep the television series in line twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88d02594a11bf3c8/69885bf9196cf41aa4037369/caitlyn-jenner8.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Caitlyn Jenner's _I Am Cait_ Uses Top Transgender Consultants > Sponsored content. 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Caitlyn Jenner accepts the Arthur Ashe Courage Award during The 2015 ESPYS in Los Angeles on July 15, 2015.Kevin Mazur—WireImage/Getty Images by [Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter](https://time.com/author/the-hollywood-reporter/) ## Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter Jul 22, 2015 6:31 PM UTC Diane Sawyer’s April 24 interview with Caitlyn Jenner on ABC was not just a ratings hit (20.7 million viewers), but a critical one too, with consensus that the two-hour news special had managed to handle with sensitivity a difficult subject. Now comes _I Am Cait_, E!’s eight-part documentary series set to premiere July 26, about Jenner’s gender transition and its impact on the network’s linchpin _Keeping Up With the Kardashians_ clan. E!, not known for tonal delicacy in its handling of social issues on such staples as _Shahs of Sunset_ and _Botched_, has brought on a trio of well-regarded transgender consultants – two Los Angeles-based therapists plus Jennifer Finney Boylan, the national co-chair of GLAAD’s board of directors – to keep the series, produced by Bunim/Murray, in line. The channel declined to answer questions about the hires (including whether any experts turned E! down and whether the decision to bring them on originated with owner NBCUniversal) or make the consultants themselves available for interviews. So _The Hollywood Reporter_ reached out to eight other prominent voices in the country’s transgender community, all of whom are aware that Jenner’s story is quickly becoming the de facto reference point (replacing Christine Jorgensen and Chaz Bono) for anyone who has no personal experience with the transgender issue. They voiced a mixture of hope and anxiety about E!’s plans for handling it, and especially how much producers, whether intentionally or otherwise, might try to make Jenner into a symbol for the entire transgender movement, when her case – a late-in-life transition, a famously macho and wealthy white male celebrity with multiple outwardly supportive family members – is sui generis. “She’s very atypical,” says Calpernia Addams, an actress and activist who advised Jared Leto on his portrayal of the transgender Rayon in _Dallas Buyers Club_. Still, “even if the message that E! ends up sending isn’t perfect,” observes Aidan Key, the founder of the Seattle-based advocacy organization Gender Diversity, “visibility and representation of transgender lives in the media has a pretty significant value.” Most are reassured, however, by the presence of Boylan in particular. “It’s hard to imagine that she’d be involved in something exploitative,” says Dr. Michael LaSala, an associate professor at Rutgers’ School of Social Work. Yet they’ll be on high alert for subtleties, or lack thereof – such as whether the show talks about “changing sex” rather than gender. (“Nobody can change sex – it’s a biological thing, a genetic thing,” says Dr. Sandy Stone, a media theorist at the University of Texas at Austin. “Gender is a social construction, performative.”) What they most collectively desire: eschewing what they feel is often the media’s cheap, voyeuristic focus on physical changes – whether surgical, hormonal or apparel – in favor of transformations in relationships that affect both the transgendered subject and everyone around him or her. “The real story of human beings who transition can’t be told with one individual,” saysDr. Stephen Levine, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. _This_ [_article_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/es-caitlyn-jenner-series-using-810288) _originally appeared on_ [_The Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com) _More from The Hollywood Reporter:_ * [Movies Blog: Heat Vision](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/heat-vision) * [TV Blog: Live Feed](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/live-feed) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3968180/caitlyn-jenner-tv-show-transgender-consultants/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3968180/caitlyn-jenner-tv-show-transgender-consultants/"},"headline":"Caitlyn Jenner's I Am Cait Uses Top Transgender Consultants","datePublished":"2015-07-22T18:31:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:29:28.883Z","description":"E! moves to keep the television series in line","url":"https://time.com/3968180/caitlyn-jenner-tv-show-transgender-consultants/","keywords":["Television","Transgender","Caitlyn Jenner"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88d02594a11bf3c8/69885bf9196cf41aa4037369/caitlyn-jenner8.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88d02594a11bf3c8/69885bf9196cf41aa4037369/caitlyn-jenner8.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Caitlyn Jenner accepts the Arthur Ashe Courage Award during The 2015 ESPYS in Los Angeles on July 15, 2015.","caption":"Caitlyn Jenner accepts the Arthur Ashe Courage Award during The 2015 ESPYS in Los Angeles on July 15, 2015.","creditText":"Kevin Mazur—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"https://time.com/3968180/caitlyn-jenner-tv-show-transgender-consultants/","name":"Caitlyn Jenner's I Am Cait Uses Top Transgender Consultants"}}]}] ```