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
children regular watch
I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to be confusing, all this stuff, it's crazy.
far felt male
I feel so much more comfortable that I've ever been. I've felt male as far back as I can remember.
felt life until
Until I really accepted this about myself and got over any of my own transphobia that I had, I really felt like I wouldn't be accepted. I thought I would ruin my life.
activist bit time
I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more focused on the 'T' now than I was on the 'L' or the 'G.'
life waited
I've waited my whole life to be able to have body hair - but I never thought I'd have back hair. But what are you going to do, right?
felt male time
I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.
good man
I feel really good, I feel like a man now, and I'm really happy.
felt horrifying literally
It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.
attracted confused sexual
I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to.
When you transition, everyone kind of has to transition around you.
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.