Chastity Bono Is Becoming Chaz Bono
JUN 11, 2009 AT 04:41 PM
That sentence is literally correct. Chastity Bono is in the process of transitioning from a female to a male who is named Chaz Bono. TMZ reports that this has been confirmed by Chaz's publicist.
'Yes, it's true -- Chaz, after many years of consideration, has made the
courageous decision to honor his true identity,' confirmed Bono's
publicist, Howard Bragman.'He is proud of his decision and
grateful for the support and respect that has already been shown by his
loved ones. It is Chaz's hope that his choice to transition will open
the hearts and minds of the public regarding this issue, just as his
'coming out' did nearly 20 years ago.We ask that the media respect Chaz's privacy during this long process as he will not be doing any interviews at this time.' "
WOW.
I didn't see this coming, did you?
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Good for him. hope he has a safe journey toward his dream, Best wishes
Respect his privacy during this time. This is far from an easy decision and there doesn't need to be any more attention called to a situation that a minute percentage of the population can understand let alone relate to.
That is wonderful. It is an amazing thing to be true to yourself in all capacities. Life's too short to be anything but. I second the comment above for a safe journey towards his goals. All the best!
Good, if that what makes him happy congratulations Chaz on your quest.
could she possibly be any more butchier?
always a negative ass in the group..
you're not helping
Neither are you.
Yes I am.
No you're not.
Could you possibly be more ignorant?
this is so stupid. chastity bono is a female. the way people just automatically start calling her "him" shows such deep ignorance. this is her choice people. she's still a she. what a weird society we live in. anything goes i guess.
you ignorant, mindless yellow belly. wait until your child comes to you one day and says they are trapped in the wrong body - what are you doing to disown it?
exactly! is HIS CHOICE!!...calling her a "him" automatically doesn't show deep ignorance; it shows acceptance. You are the ignorant one.
Hmmm. Choice. Saying that being trans, being born into the wrong body and enduring a life of hell and torment and rejection and bigotted fools telling you what you are is a CHOICE? I'm not sure if that's more insulting to myself or to your intelligence. Please don't be part of the idiot majority.
How do you know the life of a Trans? yes, we all have choices... You choose to be an a.s.s.h.o.l.e. Don't worry about what they endure, worry about your life bitch.
i transitioned from female to male at 40 years old. it was a long time coming, but i was afraid of being rejected. after i came out, no one that i love rejected me. i was really fortunate. many of my friends have lost family, friends, jobs, housing ... you name it.
we don't choose to be trans any more than you chose to not be trans.
I actually agree. She was BORN with a vagina, uterus, etc not a penis and testicles. That makes her a female. Transgendered people can mutilate their genitals (apparently), but to expect society to accept them as a sex they are not is ridiculous. She was born a female and will die a female whether she had a penis attached or not. She is a SHE.
you need to learn that there is a difference between someones SEX and someones GENDER. Chaz may have been born with a vagina, into the body female of the female sex, but up in Chaz's mind he is a he. GENDER is a mental state, not a physical thing. He is mentally a man, trapped in a female body. It happens. You may have been lucky enough to have been born into the body corresponding to your gender, but Chaz wasn't.
Having a female body doesn't by default make one a woman.
Dumb. Yes it does. Do you consider that having a human body makes you human? Or are you a donkey in disguise (aka born in the wrong body)? What dumb arguments!
Actually you are the dummy...why? because what the poster above meant that a person is born with a vagina and uterus but psychologically they considered themselves male. It has been proven scientifically, look it up. I tell you, the "ladies" of INO are so quick to fly off the handle...PMSing much?
wow...sweetheart you are the biggest ignorant person on INO; what the hell, you're the biggest ignorant person in the world!! Congrats idiot.
You go it wrong. You are ignorant. Not the poster above. Acceptance needs to be the answer.
God is great all of the time..... All of the time God is good!!!!!
The sex of the body doesn't determine one's gender identity. Everyone has a gender identity, and 99% of the time the gender identity matches the sex of the body. For 1% of the population, it doesn't.
WOW! You idiots buy that psycho analysis bull sh!t! That woman is a she. End of story. Calling someone names because they disagree with you shows your mentality.
LOL!! what a silly person...you say "calling someone names because they disagree with you shows your mentality"...YET YOU STARTED YOUR SENTENCE WITH "YOU IDIOTS"...LOL...TELL ME..HOW'S YOUR MENTALITY?...bwuahahahahahahahahaha!!!
igorance is when you are not able to accept people as they truly see themselves. if he is happy in his skin with us using male pronouns when we discuss him, then who are we to question why he feels this way? good for him for having the confidence to transition so publically! he should be applauded!
Good for Chastity!!! Life is too short and I hope she finds the happiness she is obviously searching for. We only get one life, you live it how YOU want to NOT how society tells you.
Wow! Movie in the making.
LOL!
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I think it was very brave of him to do this, as somebody who is relatively often in the public eye. Definitely wish him the best!
Chaz,
Please know you have many transgender brothers and sisters to welcome and help you along your journey. I hope and pray your mother will be as accepting as my mother and brother have been after I transitioned. I also hope your mother will come to understand this is your decision and does not reflect on her.
Kindest and sincerest warm regards,
LAL,
Los Angeles CA
I knew this response had to becoming from LA, just down the street from San Fransico where rest of the gender benders live. Just because you didn't play with dolls or like wearing dresses doesn't mean you should have been born a boy. Like everyone seems to be saying, she doesn't like being a girl and would rather be a boy. I'm going to add a new demention to the discussion, Does anyone think that satan is messing up her mind and convinsing her that God made a mistake? This time the devil wins.
As a trangender individual who is spiritual, God soesn't make mistakes. Because you don't understand God's plan doesn't make it the work of Satan. God is ever knowing and ever insightful . Those of us who live the lives as transgender people have been blessed with much more insight than someone who refuses to be sensitive enough that people live the lives they are called and they answer for themselves only to their maker. So before casting judgments or wondering the plans of God then you need to examine your own life and if you are living as the good lord says. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
So Michael Jackson is really a white man since he bleached his skin white? We are what God made us. The devil will convince you that you are something other than what God created yu to be. That doesn't mean that you should act on it. God has a purpose for each life he creates. We all go through doubts about ourselves in our lives but God is always there to get us through the tough times. It may not be how we imagine ourselves to be but Jesus says, "My plans are not your Plans". We just need to trust God that we a each unique people with souls and what we are on the outside does not matter.
He didn't bleach his skin white, stupid. He had a disease called Vitiligo. Look it up.
one word: DISCUSTING !!
Use some of that narrow-mindedness to focus on spelling.
LOL!!!
Isn't that what they said to Gallileo oh so many years ago?
when I said 'could she possibly be any more butchier?' I never meant it as a negative thing - she is very masculine which I'm sure she's very proud of - so I'm not at all surprise that she's going thru transgender.....she is very very manly looking except for her skin.
well that's the right way to say it
you guys are totally lifting my heart! thanks for sending out such positive vibes.
my best friend is transgendered, and she's such a wonderful person, and has such a generous heart. when she came out to me, my mind raced, as if re-viewing all the history we had together, and i thought "wow, that makes perfect sense. why didn't i realize this sooner?"
she's got a great boyfriend, great community of friends, great job - just a wonderful life. i'm so proud of her, to where she has taken her life.
and i love that it is the spirit of people like you that she has come to know. people, keep on sending out words of love and acceptance - it makes such a difference!
Good for Chaz! How courageous to do this so publicly. Wishing him all the best.
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This takes a lot of courage, hope he stays well.
Wonder what Cher thinks?
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ok I'm sorry but who is this person?
7765 points
the daughter now son of sonny & cher...from the 70's.
I am glad Chastity/Chaz it's doing what is right for him. I think everyone has a right to be happy and feel right 'in their skin'. If Chastity doesn't feel like a girl and knows down inside she should be a Chaz then that's what should be right. Prayin everything goes ok Chaz....God Bless
Wow! Here's a video of her talking about what she's/he's going to change (like what parts of the body...) http://vostuu.com/chastitychange.html
To those who think this is "disgusting": please go directly to your church and pray to your god to become a more loving, accepting human being. You should also probably think about accepting science over creationism, since it's been shown in brain scans that transgendered people have the brain patterns of the sex they identify with- not the sex they were born with. This is something that happens in the development of the fetus, when the wires get crossed. Pick any other birth defect... say, cleft palate, and immediately people have sympathy, oh poor thing, yes we're having surgery to get it fixed. But as soon as SEX is involved, people who are not comfortable with their own sexuality make a sweeping moral judgment and condemn someone they don't even know.
I wish Chaz all the best- if he ignores all the media hype and has the love and support of friends and family, he will become a very happy man.
FINALLY!!! Someone using their brain on here! Yes, transgendered people have very different brain patterns, and it is sad that we accept everything else physical, empathize, yet when it comes to be transgendered its "Oh no, your just mental!". Its sad. Thank you for supporting trangendered people, as do I. I have a friend who has been shunned by HIS whole amily over it, and even some of our friends. They need all the love and support they can get.
Anonymous123 (not verified) said:
when I said 'could she possibly be any more butchier?' I never meant it as a negative thing - she is very masculine which I'm sure she's very proud of - so I'm not at all surprise that she's going thru transgender.....she is very very manly looking except for her skin.
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what about her breasts, is that manly enough for you?
I've seen guys- yes, with penis and everything from birth -with more boobs... does that make Chaz less of a guy?
I was browsing cafe press and found that there is someone selling tons of gay pride I support Chaz items. www.cafepress.com/iChaz
If one isn't comfortable in the skin one is born in, what could possibly make one think altering that skin will change the mindset? It sounds to me like one might just be acquiring newer and more.
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When you think about what goes into actually making a human ( all those cells splitting ) it is really really amazing that the majority of people are born correctly.The chances of something going haywire somewhere along the way is massive. So whether you agree with peoples "choices" or not you have to admit that it is possible such a thing could happen and someone would be born with the "wrong parts".
Now instead of just another fat dyke, she is going to be just another fat white guy. How interesting and attractive. What does this contribute to the Gay cause?
I hope she knows what she is doing. I honestly wish her happiness.
Chaz doesn't need or want your wishes, as to what "She" becoming a "He" does for the gay cause? This is not about the gay cause, is about one person who is not happy with who they are; this is a personal issue.
Believe me, he knows... I'm 31, and I've known since I can remember. I tried to do what status quo dictated, but it was just living hell. Now I am finally starting to create some happy memories
It's her body and her life, so I respect that. For now, I'll continue calling Cher's child female until the process is complete. She could change her mind or have a bad reaction to hormones so until it's done, in my mind she's a she becoming a he.
One news source (QDX?) referred to Bono as "their" which I found weird but at least understandable during a transitory phase.
I've seen a lot of trans people online speak in support of this, that it will help trans people. But I wonder, will this help lesbians and gay men? Again, it's Bono's body and life, but if Bono's coming out helped society accept lesbians because a celebrity's kid came out of the closet, will Bono's SECOND coming out diminish the first?
Many people have problems with butch women and butch lesbians. Not all of them want to be men. I think that, in some people's minds the connection will be complete: come out gay, then change your sex.
Again, it's her life. But I almost wish she had not come out as lesbian. Or that she would say something now.
The continuity paradigm of "I was always gay, I just realized it last year" or "I always wanted to be in a body of the opposite sex, I just came to terms with it this year" is a bad argument and from the snippet in the press release, it seems that, indirectly, Bono is disavowing her experience as a gay woman by the way she articulated her decision to go through the transition to male.
Just a note to those castigating the anonymous critic above: not all transpeople regard themselves as being born into the wrong bodies. I know one MTF transperson who started doing drag in her 20s as a man and decided that she liked being a woman BETTER. So she transitioned. We should accept that there are many different reasons for a transition just as there are different people. Transpeople don't have not cookie-cutter brains or lives before transition.
Whether the person responds or not to hormonal treatment they are still who they are in their mind. There are girls that I know personally that have more testosterone than boys I know.
This shouldn't either cast a shadow or a spotlight on GBL issues, as being gay and being trans are 2 very different things. in the first, the uestion is "who do you like?" and in the second it is "Who are you?". A gay person can get up in the morning, and go through the day without having any form of conflict before they go to bed, and when they go to bed, they do it with whom they want. A transperson however can't even get up in the morning without having a confict, like looking in the mirror and seeing something that does not correspond to themselves, and the day hs just started
Comingout as gay or lesbian isn't the prologue of being trans. If a person likes girls, and identifies themselves as a boy eventhough they are trapped in a girls body, this makes them a heterosexual man, and being lesbian before has nothing to do with it, as some may decide to not identify themselves into any sexual orientation. Some however use homosexuality as the waypoint, being that way or not, as society doesn't really accept homosexality, but it'smore accepted than transsexuality
Really, the problem of understanding is were the word "sex" is used in the referrence, automatically making it perverse and antisocial. And to make matters worse, it is only something you can really understand when lived, and it just happens that those who decide people's futures, the gatekeepers, most of the time, are people that are deciding and defining something that they have not lived, and therefore donot understand. Who knows more about what is is to be a christian? an aethist that has studied all the religeons of the world or a christian that has lived it from birth?
Wow, I can't believe all of the negative responses to a proven medical condition! I transitioned from male to female in 1997 and I live a productive, happy life with my ex, my new partner and my children all very closely integrated in my immediate and extended family. Life is too short to criticize others or to be concerned with the criticism of others.
Chaz, if you happen to read this, please know that, if you hold your head high, there will be much more support than criticism. Be true to yourself, God Bless and God speed!
god bless you Chaz. I wish you the very best on your journey. Continue to be true to yourself and don't let others ignorance get you down.
Why do people always have to bring out a persons plumbing to decide if they are male or female? I didn't know that the essence of a person is in their pants. What about a person that is born with both visually? they are having a choice of who they are made for them by whoever operates on them chosing one or the other. To say that proof of gender is in between our legs is like saying that the sun revolves around the earth. If a guy lost his genitles in an accident, would he automatically be registered as female? after all, you are making out that the having a penis denotes male and a vagina female... what is an absence of both? Also, what does a uterus have to do with it? my aunt was born without a uterus, so does that make her not a woman? If you agree that a person an be born with a vagina and testies where the ovaries should be, just like an episode of House, then why can't it be the brain that is in conflict with the rest? After all, the brain is the house of the soul, not the heart. All I can say is generally those that believe to be advanced tend to be the opposite. On a side note: GOOD FOR HIM!!!
IF IT'S ALL IN THE MIND, MAYBE "SHE" SHOULD SEE A SHRINK INSTEAD OF A SURGEON!
I'm genderqueer meaning I feel like I'm part of both. But I say good for him if he's happy. I have many trans friends that are happy in their new body and they don't hurt anyone. So why do people still care.
Chaz has many allies on this wonderful, albeit difficult, journey. His integrity is to be admired even more so because of his public face. Many of the changes are visible and privacy will be hard to come by. I wish him all the best and hope that he has a good support network.
Im happy for him/her this is really good..she/he should do wtver makes him/her hapy! LIFE IS SHORT DO WAT PLEASES U AND LIVE IT TO THE FULLESST!!!
It's a matter of biology, "Chaz" was born with 2 X chromosomes, making her a female. Feeling trapped in the wrong gender body is an emotional or physiciatiric disorder and should be treated as such. Surgery and hormones will make her a mutilated female, but a female non the less.
Speaking as a trans-individual myself (Male-to-female), I can honestly say that it is most definately NOT a choice.... As I myself have said on many occassions, if I had a choice, I would have choosen to be a Gay male than be transsexual.....(not that I believe one's sexuality is a choice either, I might add).
As others have said before me, and will all but certainly say after me - Who would willingly choose a life of persecution, intolerance, and bigotry - and even more importantly, who would willingly choose to experience such intolerance from their own family...
The only "Choice" Chaz, myself, and people like us experience, is the choice whether to be truthful to ourselves, or not - but as a trans-individual myself, I would never wish this condition (or should I more accurately say, torture) on anyone - not even my worst enemy.
Im glad that Chaz has done what is right for him... I know how tough it can be in this often-times intolerant western society in which we find ourselves. The fact that he had courage enough to be truthful to himself and face the intolerance, is a milestone to his character.
I"m a college student who never thought much about gay and lesbian issues until taking a class dealing with "gender identity" issues. It's surprising that "science" doesn"t help much in the debates about whether a person"s "gender identification" is genetic, is something that is learned, is normal or not normal, or right or wrong. One of my course books, Gendered Lives (by Julia Wood), doesn"t take a position on whether gender is genetically determined, or whether its right or wrong, but instead addresses how the individual becomes aware of his or her particular gender role, from the inside by observing his/her own feelings and reactions as they grow and develop, and from the outside by learning from how other people see them, what they expect of them, what they think they are.
Chastity Bono comes across in the news stories as a sympathetic figure. She seems to be dealing with issues that have been difficult for her throughout her life, and she is finally making some various decisions on how to live her life.
This seems to be pretty relevant today, since gay marriage, military "don"t ask-don"t tell", rights in the workplace, workplace benefit entitlement for domestic partnerships seem to be all coming to a head, and it may be that the celebrity of the Bono family may serve to "highlight" these issues to the mainstream who I think don"t probably think much about these issues until the know someone who is personally dealing with these issues.
To all the people who can't understand transgenderism: there is so much to know on this subject, it would make your brains explode. To say that being female-bodied makes you a "she" lacks understanding of this subject. To us transpeople, we know all about it, but to common folk like yourselves, I can understand your confusion. Please understand that Gender Identity is completely unrelated to physical body. What Chaz has is Gender Identity Disorder. It's an actual disorder and it's listed in the DSM-IV (the official manual of all psychological disorders). If anyone here has ever studied psychology, you'll know about this. If not, please take the time to google it and read up on it before coming to uninformed conclusions. Good on you Chaz, best of luck.
I don't have anything except transsexuals but I don't think that this is what he is looking for. He had problems during his childhood and sorry but it's weird when first he thought he is a lesbian and now he thinks that he is a man. I don't think that he will be really happy after that. I don't think that his problems will be solved after this. If this really was what he was looking for, he would have done it a long time ago and not say that he is a homosexual woman o_O. But I wish him good luck anyhow :).
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I'm a 65 yo man who has seen you since your childhood. Congratulations!!! I wish you all happiness and good Karma!
So now Chaz is a he is he no longer gay?
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