Caitlyn Jenner, Formerly Bruce Jenner, Reveals Penis Surgically Removed
Two years after declaring to the world that "I'm a woman" Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as celebrated Olympian and father of six, Bruce Jenner, says he has completed sexual reassignment surgery with the removal of the most prominent symbol of his manhood – his penis.
Jenner makes the revelation in a new memoir, The Secrets of My Life, out April 25, according to Radar Online.
"I am telling you because I believe in candor," Jenner explains. "So all of you can stop staring. You want to know, so now you know. Which is why this is the first time, and the last time, I will ever speak of it."
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"The surgery was a success, and I feel not only wonderful but liberated," the former athlete says in the memoir.
In the book, the newly liberated transgender woman expressed frustration with having a penis.
"It's just a penis. It has no special gifts or use for me other than what I have said before, the ability to take a whiz in the woods," Jenner explained fans. "I just want to have all the right parts. I am also tired of tucking the damn thing in all the time."
Jenner said the surgery was a "complex decision," due to the health risks associated with the operation. On March 15, 2015, he also underwent breast augmentation and facial feminization surgery in order to become Caitlyn, according to Radar.
When Jenner announced he was a transgender woman in 2015, Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention warned that while the struggles of the transgender community are understandable it, the narrative of transgenderism is "rooted in the ancient heresy of Gnosticism."
"First of all, we should avoid the temptation to laugh at these suffering souls. We do not see our transgendered neighbors as freaks to be despised," Moore wrote on his website.
"They feel alienated from their identities as men or women and are seeking a solution to that in self-display or in surgery or in pumping their bodies with the other sex's hormones. In a fallen universe, all of us are alienated, in some way, from who were designed to be. That alienation manifests itself in different ways in different people," he continued.
On transgenderism, he warned that: "This narrative is rooted in the ancient heresy of Gnosticism, with the idea that the 'real' self is separate from who one is as an embodied, material being. Body parts and chromosomal patterns are dispensable since the self is radically disconnected from the body, the psychic from the material."
Jenner insisted in a 2015 interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer that he is a woman even though he was born male.
"For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman," Jenner said.
"People look at me differently. They see you as this macho male, but my heart and my soul and everything that I do in life — it is part of me," he said. "That female side is part of me. That's who I am."
