Kim Kardashian Opens Up About Bruce Jenner: 'We All Really Support Him'
In an exclusive interview with “Today” set to air Monday, Kim Kardashian will open up about her stepparent Bruce Jenner coming out as transgender.

Jenner made the announcement in an interview with Diane Sawyer on Friday night, saying, “I’m me. I’m a person. This is who I am. I’m not stuck in anybody’s body. My brain is much more female than male … For all intents and purposes, I am a woman.”

In a clip from Kardashian’s upcoming interview, the reality star slams reports that her family has been anything but supportive.

“I see reports that say, you know, this one doesn’t support him, and this one’s over here and my mom feels this way, and it’s all really so made up,” says Kardashian in the clip.

Kardashian says that “there is still an adjustment” to be made, but adds, “We all really support him.”

Watch the full interview Monday on “Today.”

Note: Though Jenner has come out as “for all intents and purposes a woman,” he has not yet indicated that he would like to be known by a new name or female pronouns, so this story uses male pronouns.

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Bobby Hankinson

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Kris Humphries Tweets His Support For Bruce Jenner After, Uh, Puzzling Initial Reaction
Washington Wizards forward Kris Humphries sent out a puzzling tweet early Saturday morning, just hours after ABC aired an interview in which his former parent-in-law, Bruce Jenner, told Diane Sawyer he considered himself a woman.

Man, I’m glad I got out when I did.
#Gottadoyou

— Kris Humphries (@KrisHumphries) April 25, 2015

The tweet quickly led to criticism of Humphries online, as people tweeted that his comments were insensitive, intolerant and coming from a place of ignorance.

Humphries apologized later on Saturday for what he described as his “vague” tweet, saying he fully supported Jenner and his decision.

I have and always will support Bruce hence #Gottadoyou. Now recognize I was too vague and sincerely apologize for the way this came across.

— Kris Humphries (@KrisHumphries) April 25, 2015

#FullySupportBruce

— Kris Humphries (@KrisHumphries) April 25, 2015

Humphries was once married to Jenner’s stepdaughter Kim Kardashian. During Jenner’s interview with ABC, he said that Kardashian’s new husband, Kanye West, played a critical role in convincing her to fully support her parent’s decision.

“[Kanye] says to Kim, ‘Look, I can be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am. I can have the most beautiful little daughter in the world, and I have that,’” Bruce recalled. “‘But I’m nothing if I can’t be me. If I can’t be true to myself, they don’t mean anything.’”

Note: Though Jenner has come out as “for all intents and purposes a woman,” he has not yet indicated that he would like to be known by a new name or female pronouns, so this story uses male pronouns.

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WATCH LIVE: White House Correspondents' Dinner

Kyler Geoffroy

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The Time for Equality Is Now
Nineteen years ago, the United States Supreme Court in Romer v. Evans struck down Colorado’s notorious Amendment 2, a state constitutional provision that revoked all local ordinances prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and forbade state and local governments in Colorado from enacting or enforcing such protections in the future. The Supreme Court found that Amendment 2’s purpose was to make lesbian, gay, and bisexual people “unequal to everyone else” and that such “a bare… desire to harm a politically unpopular group” rendered the law unconstitutional.

However, the Supreme Court left undecided whether sexual orientation and gender identity are protected classes under the Constitution, which would mean that governmental actions that target LGBT Americans for differential treatment would be presumed invalid and upheld only if they withstand so-called “heightened judicial scrutiny,” a very difficult standard to meet. The marriage equality cases before the Supreme Court this year provide the Court with the perfect opportunity to make this much needed holding. Indeed, various states’ recent attempts to undermine gains in LGBT equality underscore the importance of the Supreme Court’s making such a ruling.

In addition to recently proposed or enacted state laws to invite LGBT discrimination under the guise of “religious freedom,” Arkansas and Tennessee have passed anti-LGBT laws that revoke all local prohibitions on discrimination against LGBT people and prohibit enforcement of any such measures in the future, despite the Supreme Court’s decision in Romer. These states have attempted to maneuver around Romer through the tactic of targeting LGBT people without naming them explicitly. The new laws forbid local governments to provide protection against discrimination for any group of people not protected under state law . However, Arkansas, Tennessee (and 27 other states) currently have no statewide protections against sexual orientation discrimination. They and 30 other states have no protections against gender identity discrimination. The intent of Arkansas and Tennessee’s new laws is essentially the same as that of Colorado’s two decades ago: rollback LGBT legal protections and impede future efforts at achieving them.

Upon sponsoring the bill, Arkansas State Senator Bart Hester repeated the decades’ old mantra of LGBT opponents — he did not want LGBT people to have “special rights.” His original version of the bill that the State Senate passed (but the House amended) went so far as to declare a statewide “emergency” making the bill “immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health, and safety” — even though none of Arkansas’ 75 counties or 500 cities at the time even had a local ordinance prohibiting LGBT discrimination. Fayetteville had passed such an ordinance in August 2014, but a local referendum repealed it in December. Since the statewide bill was introduced, Little Rock and Eureka Springs passed local protections that will become unenforceable later this year when the bill goes into effect.

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback took action this February with motives similar to those of lawmakers in Arkansas and Tennessee when he rescinded an eight-year-old Kansas Executive Order prohibiting discrimination against LGBT state employees, just three months after same-sex couples began marrying in the state. His purported intent was to align government workers’ protections with those available statewide to everyone. However, like Arkansas and Tennessee, Kansas has no statewide statutory protections against sexual orientation or gender identity discrimination. Fear immediately spread among the state’s LGBT employees. A local Topeka Human Relations Commissioner explained that LGBT state workers “were already very cautious about public attention,” but their “concerns” were suddenly “multiplied exponentially.” LGBT state employees who want to marry now risk losing their jobs if they do so. Those who married before Brownback rescinded the Executive Order are already vulnerable.

The solutions to these problems are clear. As we continue to undertake the lengthy processes of achieving protections under all states’ laws, Congress must act now to prohibit discrimination nationwide against LGBT people in all aspects of our lives. This June, we need a ruling from the Supreme Court that the US Constitution guarantees LGBT Americans in every state the right to live free from their government treating them as less than equal because of who they are or whom they love. An April 2015 Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Americans support marriage equality nationwide 52 percent to 32 percent, a gaping 20 point margin. The same poll showed that 55 percent of Americans opposed employers’ being able to use their religious beliefs as a basis for refusing to hire someone, and that 54 percent of Americans opposed businesses’ being able to refuse service to someone on the same basis. The time for equality under the law is now.

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John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney, together for nearly three decades, were plaintiffs in the California case for equal marriage rights decided by the California Supreme Court in 2008. They are leaders in the nationwide grassroots organization Marriage Equality USA.

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WATCH: Kim Kardashian Says Family in Therapy, Totally Supportive

The fellow Keeping Up With the Kardashians star talks with NBC’s Matt Lauer about adjusting.

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Lucas Grindley

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