Jose Canseco says he will live as a woman for one week to show support for Caitlyn Jenner.
That might be enough to make Caitlyn Jenner change back.
Canseco, a onetime all-star slugger with the Oakland A’s, says after much soul-searching, he has decided he supports former Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner’s transition into Caitlyn.
“In the very beginning, I didn’t understand it, so I was kind of like, against it,” said Canseco. “Once I watched it more and more, and realized what it really entailed, what he was going through, I started supporting him.”
So the 51-year-old Canseco says he will spend a week living as a woman to illustrate that support.
And we’re completely confident this has everything to do with his heartfelt support for the transgender community and not just another case of Canseco’s innate talent for making a spectacle of himself.
Jenner, 65, came out as transgender earlier this year, and the transition is being chronicled on the reality TV show “I Am Cait.” She was recently awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPY Awards.
Canseco played for the A’s from 1985 to 1992. He also spent time with the Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox and Madonna.
In 2005, he published a memoir describing his extensive steroid use.
He has since dabbled in acting, boxing and mixed martial arts, among other pursuits. Last year, he reportedly shot off his middle finger while cleaning a gun in his Las Vegas kitchen.
Canseco told the New York Daily News he “will be dressing up and living as a woman for a week. I’m talking about full everything.”
He did not elaborate, and, frankly, we are thankful for that.
“I can’t say exactly how it’s going to be done yet,” he added. “It will be done for about a week — it will be on my Internet show called, ‘Spend a day with Jose.'”
How about “Spend a day with Josephine?”
Canseco did not say when this will happen.
No comment from Caitlyn Jenner on the matter.
Randy McMullen provides celebrity commentary for the Bay Area News Group. Follow her at twitter.com/randymac57.