{"id":339695,"date":"2015-05-21T18:21:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T10:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/uncategorized-hk\/gender-bender-10-celebrities-didnt-know-transgender-339695.html"},"modified":"2019-05-03T18:01:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T10:01:22","slug":"gender-bender-10-celebrities-didnt-know-transgender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/hk\/galerie\/gender-bender-10-celebrities-didnt-know-transgender-339695.html","title":{"rendered":"Gender Bender: 10 Transgender celebrities to know about"},"content":{"rendered":" <p>Whether or not you keep up with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/lifelove\/entertainment-lifelove\/kim-kardashian-hollywood-game-33015.html#post-33015\">Kardashians<\/a>, you would have at some point heard the\u00a0brouhaha over Bruce Jenner's decision to transition from being male to female. Indeed, it was\u00a0just last month\u00a0when the former Olympian braved the public\u00a0and sat down with veteran talk show host Diane Sawyer to confirm that he is undergoing treatment to become a woman. His journey into womanhood has scored him his own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/lifelove\/entertainment-lifelove\/hate-watching-10-reality-shows-hate-love-94050.html\">reality TV<\/a> series on E!<\/p> <p>With so much media interest in Bruce Jenner's transitioning, you'd think he was the first ever celebrity attempting to accomplish the impossible under such public scrutiny. Many people don't realize that many of the famous faces they see on TV, magazines and the runways were not born in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/lifelove\/decoding\/man-meets-woman-funny-pictograms-gender-cliches-yang-liu-41283.html\">gender<\/a> they now live in. 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