The source of every homosexual inclination or gender dysphoria can be traced to the adolescence of the sufferer – usually in the father or mother. With regards to Olympian Bruce Jenner, his father seems to have been a quiet and reserved tree surgeon. His thrice-widowed mother at best is described as “feisty.” Not surprisingly, Jenner appears to have spent much of his childhood with a weak sense of self, aggravated by his undiagnosed dyslexia, and an overwhelming fear of women. In his autobiography, he wrote: “When it came to girls, I was afraid…When it came to conversations, I was shy.” The young Jenner said he found he was good at sports during a classroom game: “I had the fastest time in the whole school! That was the first time I had ever really accomplished anything in school. Everyone was patting me on the back saying, good job Bruce! I liked the pat on the back.” Finding solace in sports – Jenner admittedly felt more comfortable in the all-male world of athletics. Later, his first marriage was to high-school sweetheart Chrystie Crownover who once said “After Bruce captured the gold in 1976, he didn’t sleep all night. He would get up and walk around naked with the medal around his neck, beaming and flexing.” This sort of over-the-top manliness is characteristic among many gay men and closeted transvestites who grew up either unsure of themselves or emasculated. When I was an escort, one of my most generous clients was a highly masculine captain of industry who liked to be humiliated while dressed in women’s clothing.

After his divorce, Jenner married a series of sexually adventurous and aggressive women: Elvis’ last live-in lover Linda Thompson and jet-set socialite Kris Kardashian. Particularly with Kardashian, Jenner’s mother had the most strained relations; calling Kris a “controlling monster.” On an episode of the Kardashian reality-show: “…after a whisky cocktail she [Jenner’s mother] begins to talk about how she won’t wed again – and how any prospective husbands probably won’t be able to ‘get it up.’” Odd behavior from an 87 year-old woman, but archetypal of mothers with gay sons: an overly protective personality with a tendency to manipulate their male children; becoming exceedingly possessive therefore combative with their children’s partners; often extremely extroverted with a certain “fag-hag” sensibility and a desire to shock. Jenner’s upbringing is classic: a disconnected father, an overbearing mother, a sense of alienation from peers, a need to be liked and then a propensity to overcompensate, difficulty in relationships, but a tremendous desire to be loved. These souls typically grow up highly sensitive amid an inclination towards secretiveness: fear mixes with a crushing need for intimacy. As a boy; Jenner apparently found this intimacy by dressing in his mother’s cloths – a sort of surrogate relationship with the female, but without the risks or the anxiety of rejection. In gay men – they transfer their yearning for a father’s love towards a sexualization of all men; in those with gender dysphoria or transvestism – they gain a false closeness by changing genitals or by donning women’s clothing.