Posted on 06/14/2009 6:42:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Political and social activist Chastity Bono – the only child of entertainers Cher and the late Sonny Bono – began undergoing a sex change shortly after her 40th birthday on March 4.
"Cher is very supportive and has known about Chastity wanting to do this for a very long time," a source tells PEOPLE. "This will be a long process but it's something Chastity has wanted to do for many years."
Bono's spokesman, Howard Bragman, told TMZ, which first reported the story, "Yes, it's true – Chaz, after many years of consideration, has made the courageous decision to honor his true identity.
"He is proud of his decision and grateful for the support and respect that has already been shown by his loved ones. It is Chaz's hope that his choice to transition will open the hearts and minds of the public regarding this issue, just as his 'coming out' did nearly 20 years ago."
He added, "We ask that the media respect Chaz's privacy during this long process as he will not be doing any interviews at this time."
According to a 1998 PEOPLE article about Bono, at the time she published her book, Family Outing, a guidebook of real-life examples (including her own) that showed young gay people the rewards and pitfalls that accompany being open about their sexuality, Bono first decided to tell her parents she was gay when she was a freshman at New York University in fall 1987. Father Sonny took the news in stride, but mother Cher did not.
"I flipped out," Cher told PEOPLE. "I'd always had this idea that she would get married and have a family." And though Cher had won acclaim for her portrayal of a gay woman in the 1983 film Silkwood – and has counted upon gay audiences for being among her staunchest fans – she banished her daughter from her Manhattan apartment. Later, when Chastity decided to abandon her studies to pursue a career as a rock singer, she chose to keep her homosexuality a secret.
It didn't work. While she was trying to launch a career with her band Ceremony in 1990, a weekly tabloid announced Bono's lesbianism to the world. Besieged by reporters, she also felt betrayed by members of the gay community, who had tipped off the tabloid.
"It was the most traumatic thing that ever happened to me," she said in 1998. Bono felt completely at sea. "I closed my blinds at home," she said. "I didn't have a life, really."
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Pathetic piece of trash just like her mother except her mother would sleep with both sex no matter if it was a woman or man...both are morons..
If Sonny were here, he may have stopped this.
Maybe not pro-choice women. It looks like karma has conspired against her, as she will have no further seed on the face of this earth.
I don't like the pompous parading and shallow, self-congratulatory pretentions of the Left, but those are among the least of their follies (pun intended). I wish her and her mother success and happiness with what should be a private matter. To persue happiness wherever one finds it is part of the liberty for which our ancestors lived, fought, and died.
She’ll be just another fat old man.
Cher has had so many parts added or adjusted that this probably seems normal to her.
She looks like John Candy.
Product of her environment.
In other words, she wants to be more like mom!?
“But, I find a twisted sort of irony in the fact that Sonny (the conservative) took his daughter’s coming out in stride while Cher (the consummate liberal) went ballistic.”
Yet, Chastity was unhappy that the father who took her comming out in stride because he did not support rights for all gays. Liberal, hypocrite Cher slapped Chastity’s face when she came out.
I don't think she's all that pleased. This was her reaction upon learning her daughter was gay...
"I flipped out," Cher told PEOPLE. "I'd always had this idea that she would get married and have a family." And though Cher had won acclaim for her portrayal of a gay woman in the 1983 film Silkwood – and has counted upon gay audiences for being among her staunchest fans – she banished her daughter from her Manhattan apartment.
That doesn't seem like she'd be too acceptable to a permanent sex change
Is that Chastity?
Funny how SoDDomWood always lectures us how to raise our kids and theirs are drug addicted freaks.
Pray for America
This gives “Man up!” a whole new meaning.
When it is all said and done she will still be a mutilated woman. Not a man.
I looked up Cher on IMDB and her only hope for grandchildren is through her son Elijah (with Greg Allman).
The good news is, she won’t even need surgery!
Yes.
She should save herself the pain of surgery as she already looks like a man. Maybe she should have a lapband put in instead.
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