Chaz Bono
Chaz Bono
Chaz Salvatore Bonois an American advocate, writer, musician and actor. He is the only child of American entertainers Sonny and Cher...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReality Star
Date of Birth4 March 1969
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
gay movement way
Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But Im an activist - thats just the kind of person I am.
kids parent blame
Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
self important
Being self-supporting is important to me.
mother mean people
It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother.
transition transgender rejected
When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?
confusing pressure fit
As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.
birthday stuff shaving
I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.
mom hurt betrayal
Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.
kids parent speak
A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.
mom healthy care
What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
strong acting identity
Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.
dance people television
People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.
men issues identity
So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I was a lesbian, and didn't realize that that wasn't the case. It was the fact that I was a man and a heterosexual man. The issue wasn't my sexual orientation, but rather my gender identity.
birth-defects people brain
There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.