As Caitlyn Jenner plays tennis with her sister, the 65-year-old mocks her own athletic prowess with the quip “Bruce was a better tennis player than Caitlyn.”
It’s a moment of comic relief in an otherwise emotional first episode of “I Am Cait,” an eight-part docuseries premiering Sunday on E! that pulls back the curtain on the new life of Caitlyn Jenner, the most high-profile transgender American, an Olympic champion formerly known as Bruce.
Before Jenner came out in a TV interview with Diane Sawyer in April and appeared as Caitlyn on a Vanity Fair cover, the 1976 Olympic decathlon winner had been a staple of E! for 10 years as the patriarch on top-rated reality show “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”
It’s clear from the beginning of “I Am Cait” that she is on a mission to educate about the challenges for the transgender community, particularly for young transgender people, and for families of people who transition.
