"He says, 'O.K., what are we gonna do with this one? Make him a smart kid, very determined[']� and then, when he�s just finishing, he says, 'Let�s wait a second.' God looks down and chuckles a little bit and says, 'Hey, let�s give him the soul of a female.'"
Bruce Jenner, quoted in a New Yorker piece titled "Bruce Jenner and the Modern American Family."
We're being invited � through a new door � back into an old subject: Whether there is such a thing as a "the soul of a female." Or... actually, those are 2 old subjects: 1. Whether essentialist ideas about the feminine are true/false and useful/damaging, and 2. Whether we have some core being that might be called a "soul."
I don't even know what Bruce Jenner really thinks. I read his quote as a sort of myth he made up about himself, and he's only letting us know that it's something he uses in his presentation to others. I can't tell whether it's something he's found helpful in understanding himself, and I certainly don't believe that he literally believes that God creates us like that.
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