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
mom healthy care
What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
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.
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.
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.
dance people television
People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.
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.
kids parent speak
A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.
birthday stuff shaving
I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.
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?
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.
self important
Being self-supporting is important to me.
kids parent blame
Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
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.
people risk body
I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.