Chaz Bono will open up for the first time about undergoing gender re-assignment surgery to become a man in a two-part interview in his home with Entertainment Tonight airing Thursday and Friday.
Chaz’s decision to go through with gender re-assignment surgery was not an easy one, but one he felt he was always supposed to do.
“It wasn’t a sudden decision. I’ve been doing therapy for a long time. It’s a long process going back almost a decade,” Chaz explained to ET. “I got clean and sober in 2004 and I couldn’t have done this before that.”
“I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn’t much feminine about me. I believe that gender is something between your ears not between your legs,” Chaz reveals. “That is something I discovered in the early 90’s. It was just a long process of being comfortable enough to do something about it. I was turning 40 and I thought it’s now or never.”
“I want to still feel vibrant and be able to enjoy my life in a male body and not wait until I am an old man.”
The process was long, and included taking male hormone pills beginning back in March.
“It lowered my voice. Fat redistributes, muscle growth, hair growth, sex drive increases. It doesn’t change anything mentally and emotionally,” Chaz said. “[I'm] still not anywhere near what I will look like but really for the first time I am feeling much more comfortable with how I look physically.”
Chaz spoke about getting his breasts removed to ET and explained, “Most people call it top surgery. The construction of the male chest from a female chest. When I went through puberty and started to grow breasts, it was very uncomfortable and emotional.”
Chaz is also uncomfortable about taking about any future plans for surgery.
“That’s a personal decision and I don’t really feel comfortable talking about anything below the waist.”
His complete change will take some time to progress.
“I will be changing for about 4 to 5 years in total but I’ll be on testosterone for the rest of my life,” Chaz says. “The nice thing about this process is it is slow. I am literally going through puberty.”
The side effects aren’t too terrible he said, “Just muscle aches… growing pains.”
“I shave about once a week now. It kind of started to come in just like peach fuzz. I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.”
Chaz said he can’t speak for his mother Cher’s feelings about his experience, but told ET that everyone close to him has been very supportive. “The people in my life are just happy that I’m doing this and seeing the positive effect that its having on me,” he says.
Wierd!
this is just gross……
That is just so weird and sick. If you were to be a boy you would have been born one, why fuck withthat God gave you?
Sick freak
Why arent you a bitch? Oh you WERE born a BITCH. LOL
Evans you don’t really strike me as much of a witness for God if you want to go dishing out insults like that.
There is plenty of evidence to suggest that it is a physical problem in the brain which cannot be fixed which causes gender dysphoria. The bible can actually support this also.
Please don’t try to bring God into things if you’re going to do it in such a hypocritical manner too.
Dang did he gain some weight!
Best of luck to Chaz with his new life as he is and always has been. It takes a strong person to know who they are and act as they are. Congrats Chaz on being a strong man and a good roll model to our young people; be yourself no matter what they say.
this is sickening and disgusting, will you also change your chromosomes?
Tina you do realise that a lot of people who aren’t even transgender don’t consistently have XX or XY chromosomes. They had to stop doing chromosome tests for the olympics once they enforced the tests on men, when they realised that not all of the men had male chromosomes.
Previously it had only been compulsory for women to have chromosome tests, and they were fine with some women being barred from competing because they had male chromosomes.
Get your facts straight before you go chatting nonsense.
GROSS!!!! She is just plain gross. How about some psychotherapy also. She states she is trying to educate people…Please don’t. There are enough sick people in the world. If I were her family, I would disown her and NEVER have anything to do with her again. I would be so ashamed of her. Once again. GROSS!!! Please seek professional help and keep to yourself. You are sick and really do need professinal help.
Good job you’re not his family!
If you felt the same way and sought out professional help – they would be very likely point you in the same direction.
Best wishes and fortune for you Chaz! You are a hero to me!
Hugs!
September Meadows
Ellensburg, WA
If it makes him happy that’s what’s important. I think everyone is entitled to be happy.
Congrats man!I wish Chaz all the best.
I have a handful of gay friends I have no problem with. I know one person who had reasignment surgery, I was supportive. However I have issue with people calling themselves a man or a woman claiming to be the other gender when they have the same genitals they were born with. It disgusts me. Chaz looks disgusting and is still female.
CHAZ dad would be unhappy with her…. No matter what changes she makes it will not change her being born as a female…. WHY,WHY,WHY would she do that ?? Her MOM&DAD wonderful parent …….
He was a male in a female body. That is how he sees himself. Its not gross or sick but a fact. Its how he feels which is important as he is the one living in the body he was given. Nature does not always get it right. I wish him all the best. To me people being ACDC is gross. Neither one thing or the other that is sickening.
it’s a crazy world we live in!