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>> for all purposes i am a woman. people look at me differently. they see you as this macho male but my heart and soul and everything that i do in life. it's part of me. that female side is part of me. that's who i am. >> jenner who says that he prefers to go by the pronoun he revealed he struggled with gender identity for years. he has been undergoing hormone therapy for a year and a half but has not made up his mind about reassignment surgery. we'll have more from his interview and what it means for thousands of other transgender americans in our next hour. and up next what's going on with t...

According to entertainment tonight it started in the 80s but stopped after he met kris jenner. he reportedly started hormone therapy and even looked into reassignment surgery in den marc. the book about another athlete was a big influence on him. then he met kris jenner. the couple officially split last september. new attacks aimed at the 2016 front runner. the house benghazi committee says it wants hillary clinton to testify in public twice, and then a question about foreign money and her family's foundation. >> reporter: hillary clinton the biggest celebrity at a. she is trailed by a casca...

Is now patric. >> i love you. >> i love you, too. >> the reassignment surgery is a small part of the process, really. in fact, it's probably the most insignificant part in terms of your social presentation. these are people that have socially transitioned. and emotionally transitioned long ago. you would call them men six months ago, a year ago. you know, they're clearly, they're men. and the surgery is just kind of icing on the cake for them. when we come back, life after surgery. how much will things really change? >> now, you have this appendage on your body. like, oh, hi. >> i'm engaged....

>> i love you. >> i love you, too. >> the reassignment surgery is a small part of the process, really. in fact, it's probably the most insignificant part in terms of your social presentation. these are people that have socially transitioned. and emotionally transitioned long ago. you would call them men six months ago, a year ago. you know, they're clearly, they're men. and the surgery is just kind of icing on the cake for them. when we come back, life after surgery. how much will things really change? >> now that you have this appendage on your body, it's like, oh, hi. >> i'm engaged. we ha...

Service you'll be accused immediately of pushing the vulnerable towards self-harm but in fact there is quite a bit of evidence to the opposite. general reassignment surgery and chemical trasstration cause depression and exacerbate mental illness. this is known. just five years ago a study by the obama administration found no positive health benefits from the so-called treatment. in a 2016 document called a proposed decision memo for gender reassignment surgery, based on a thorough review of the clinical evidence available at this time there is not enough evidence to determine whether gender re...