Caitlyn Jenner's Olympic Gold Won as Bruce Could be Taken Away: Petition Emerges Online

By Mitch Thorpe, Mstars News writer | Jun 04, 2015 04:54 PM EDT

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Caitlyn Jenner might finally be living the life that she has always wanted, but does that mean that her past life is going down in flames? The woman, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, might finally be happy in her own skin, but not everyone has been so willing to accept her transition. She has been breaking records since she was in the Olympics, and just this past week she broke another record, being the first person to amass over a million Twitter followers in four hours. However, with all the support there are still those in the world that don't understand her transition and have even been looking at ways to discredit the former althete, mainly by taking away her Olympic Gold Medal.

According to Radar Online, Caitlyn might be a heavily decorated Olympian, but some are looking to take away her gold.

A petition has been started on Change.org, where signers are asking that Jenner give back the medals that she won in the 1976 Montreal Summer Games. While Caitlyn admitted that she always thought of herself as a woman, she competed in the games as a male, which hasn't sat well with some.

A photo posted by Vanity Fair (@vanityfair) on Jun 1, 2015 at 3:17pm PDT

The petition states that since Jenner classified herself as a woman for her entire life that she was in violation of the rules set forth by the committee.

"It is with heavy heart that we must ask, whether or not it is proper, that Ms. Jenner should retain her Olympic records," the petition reads. "In light of this, as we must now either claim that Bruce Jenner and Caitlyn Jenner are two entirely different people (which we know is not true), or that Bruce Jenner was, in fact, a woman participating in a men's event."

The International Olympic Committee has yet to respond to this controversy.

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