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
dance people television
People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.
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.
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.
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.
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?
self important
Being self-supporting is important to me.
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.
eye issues able
For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.
I came out around 25 publicly.
luxury
I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.
believe people different
I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation.
school boys felt
I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.