OP, I had exactly the same reaction (to the extent of growling "aaarrggh FUCK OFF!" at the radio before I switched station).
Lousie Pennington (formerly of this parish) has written very pithily about Jenner's inclusion in the WH Power List here, and I hope she won't mind me reproducing her post below:
Caitlyn Jenner makes Woman’s Hour Power List
Shall we enumerate the ways in which Caitlyn Jenner has helped women:
1. Killed Kim Howe with his car.
2. Failed to financially support his children.
3. Stole his teenage step-daughter’s underwear to wear it around the house.
4. Reinforced neurosexism and heteronormativity with his stance on ‘female brains’ and ‘female souls’.
So, Bruce Jenner makes the list for doing sweet fuck all for women. Fabu-fucking-doodle. Next we’ll see Charlie Sheen on the list for not insulting, denigrating and threatening. one of the mother’s of his children for a period of 24 hours.
I made a formal complaint to the BBC here.
Caitlyn Jenner, a transgender woman who has killed a woman (Kim Howe) through dangerous driving, failed to financially support her children from previous relationships, and who admitted to stealing and wearing her step-daughter’s lingerie has been placed on Women’s Hour Power List. What precisely has Jenner done for women that negate killing a woman, financial child abuse, and stealing her stepdaughter’s lingerie (which in and of itself is deeply creepy)?
Could Woman’s Hour not find any women to place on this list that haven’t committed criminal offences like financial child abuse? Or, not killed anyone recently?
Jenner’s inclusion makes a mockery of the idea of a power list.
I have also sent this complaint to the BBC:
I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the inclusion of Caitlyn Jenner in the Women's Hour Power List.
This male-bodied individual has acheived nothing of note since their "transition", other than spending ten of thousands of dollars on plasic surgery in order to reify gender stereotypes which harm actual women and girls.
At present, this kind of politically orthodox double-think is unfortunately de rigeur in certain circles (young academics and students, mainly), but I am bitterly disappointed and actually deeply offended that the Woman's Hour editorial team (of whom I expect infinitely more in terms of analysis and critical thought) felt it was appropriate to include this person in their Power List, when they are neither female, nor an advocate for actual women and girls, nor influential beyond using their immense wealth and media presence to appear on the cover of Vanity Fair.
If Woman's Hour choose to repeat the Power List exercise in future, it would be reassuring to know that the women who are likely to feature on the list will a) have actually achieved something of note beyond tucking their genitals between their legs in order to pose in underwear on the cover of a magazine, and b) be actual females.
I am feeling pretty bleak about this today. Can women have nothing that is our own anymore, even bloody Woman's Hour?