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As I previewed yesterday, Kim Kardashian gave her “first TV interview” after Bruce Jenner’s ABC interview. The only thing? Kim filmed this interview with Today and Mat Lauer last Friday, during the day, before Bruce’s interview. So… just keep that in mind. She hadn’t seen Bruce’s interview, but from the way Kim talks about it, I feel like Bruce kept her completely in the loop about what he said to Diane Sawyer. Kim talks about how she 100% accepts and loves Bruce. She makes some allusions to how some members of the family need some more time to process Bruce’s transition, but says that the whole family is standing behind him and supporting him. She even says that they’ve been talking to GLAAD about the language to use to respectfully discuss Bruce’s transition, which is great to hear.

You know what? I know Kim isn’t anyone’s favorite celebrity or reality star or whatever, but I don’t have any shade for how she’s handling this. I take Bruce’s story about Kim at face value, that she was surprised into silence for a while, but she and Kanye talked about it and Kanye made her understand what Bruce has been going through his whole life. Bruce also said that since Kanye made her understand, Kim has been the most supportive of all the girls. I believe it. And for that, we should praise her. She’s making a rare step to think of and care about someone else and offer very real emotional support to the transgender parent who raised her for years and years. That’s how it should be, but that’s not how it is for many transgender people.

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