Caitlyn Jenner sparked yet another controversy last week with her Time Magazine interview and has now apologized.
In the interview, Jenner, who opened up earlier this year about transitioning from a man to a woman, talked about the pressures of keeping up her image. She said it was important for her to work on her “presentation” to put people “at ease.”
“If you’re out there and, to be honest with you, if you look like a man in a dress, it makes people uncomfortable,” Jenner said. “So the first thing I can do is try to present myself well.”
On Monday, Jenner posted an open letter on her WhoSay page titled “Still So Much To Learn.” In it, she admitted that she still has a lot to learn about being a member of the trans community.
“I guess it’s true that there are some things that I have not gotten right,” Jenner wrote. “Sometimes this is because I’m still finding out about the issues. Sometimes this is because something that is true for me isn’t true for other people in our community. And sometimes I’ve said things that just come out the wrong way... And sometimes the media takes one comment out of context—or interprets it to mean something other than what I meant.”
Later, she apologized specifically for the Time magazine comment and tried to explain what she meant.
“I think I caused a lot of hurt with this comment, and I’m truly sorry,” she wrote. “What I was trying to say is that our world really is still a binary one, and that people who look ‘visibly transgender’ sometimes can struggle for acceptance and may be treated poorly by others. And while this may be true, it’s also something that needs to change.”
Jenner was a runner-up for Time’s Person of the Year title. In addition to her now-famous Vanity Fair cover, Jenner also starred in the E! Network series I Am Cait.