Caitlyn Jenner Tells Riley Gaines About Being Used By Media, The Left For Being Transgender

Caitlyn Jenner joined OutKick's Riley Gaines on the latest episode of the Gaines For Girls podcast.

The two discussed a wide range of topics, including how Jenner's decision to speak out about being transgender was used by the media and those looking to further left-wing ideologies.

And Jenner certainly knows this when she sees it because it has happened to her twice, decades apart.

Jenner explained to Gaines how shortly after winning gold in the decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, she was approached to discuss her experiences of living with dyslexia.

You can watch the full clip below:

"Nobody ever talked about (dyslexia)," Jenner said. "Some reporter asked me to do an interview on being dyslexic. Now, this is nine months after the games. I thought, ‘I would love to do that.’ Maybe it's going to help some young kids out, you know, because nobody talked about it before.

 "And so I did this interview. And in today's terms, it went viral."

Jenner said that the interview was everywhere, and before you knew it dyslexia — which wasn't talked about previously — was everywhere.

"Parents were going to their kids, and if they turn one word around, or they said something, (parents would say), 'Oh my God, my child's dyslexic. I have to get help. I have to do something about it.'

"And I see schools for being dyslexic are opening up, psychologists or doing complete programs for dyslexic kids. And it gets out of hand." 

Hmm… sound familiar?

Jenner said that this led to her not wanting to talk about dyslexia anymore.

"I got about three or four years into talking about it, to be honest with you, I stopped talking about it," Jenner explained. "I said, 'Everybody's trying to make money off this thing.' You know, and it didn't have to be that way."

Caitlyn Jenner told OutKick's Riley Gaines about how interviews she gave on two entirely different subjects decades apart were both taken advantage of.  (Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)

Jenner Saw The Same Thing Happen After Opening Up About Being Transgender

Caitlyn Jenner opened up about being transgender in a 2015 interview with Diane Sawyer.

"My intentions when I transitioned was for me to live with myself," Jenner said. "I couldn't do it privately. I had to do it publicly. I was in the public eye. I  won the Games, I was on the most successful reality show in history, the list goes on and on and on.

I'm in the public eye; unless I, like, move to Alaska, into the backwoods into a little house and I hid there. That's not gonna work. I've got family. I've got 10 kids, you know, 23 grandchildren now. I can't leave all of that."

Much like Jenner's interview about being dyslexic, her interview with Sawyer and news of her transition went viral in the most modern sense possible.

"It just became a story that was everywhere. I mean, the cover of Vanity Fair started it," Jenner said.

That cover shattered records on Twitter, but Jenner soon started noticing that the story was being co-opted.

"I think in a lot of cases, I have been used by the media, by the left who's trying to push this," Jenner said. I have been used. 

"So today it's the same thing. I feel the same way. Although, technically, I can't stop talking about it because there's a lot of things that have to be done. But I think society has to stop talking about it," she said.

"This is a small, small, small group of people, but it's a big meaty issue, and it's not going anywhere."