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From Chastity to Chaz: Bono Speaks Out
CBS NEWS ^ | 10/29 | CBS

Posted on 11/08/2009 6:54:54 PM PST by Feline_AIDS

(CBS) In June, Chastity Bono, daughter of entertainers Sonny and Cher, shocked the entertainment world by announcing that she was becoming a he.

Now, in his first interview, Chaz Bono, as he now calls himself, speaks to "Entertainment Tonight's" Mary Hart about his transformation, his famous family and the struggle he's gone through since childhood.

"I have to tell you that I was really quite moved with my time with Chaz. His honesty, thoughtfulness and warmth not only impressed me, but it helped me understand this very serious choice he's made," Hart told Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith.

According to Bono, the most difficult step he had to take was, "finding the courage not to worry about what other people would think of me so much."

America first met Bono on "The Sonny and Cher Show" as an adorable, little blonde girl with pig tails.

Now 40 years old, and almost 15 years since coming out as gay, he is beginning to live life as he wanted to for a long time, as a man. He says the complete transformation will take four or five years and involves surgery and hormone therapy.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chazbono; freak; homosexualagenda; mentalillness; sexchange
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At first I was sort of rubbernecking by clicking on this story, but it actually is really sad.
1 posted on 11/08/2009 6:54:55 PM PST by Feline_AIDS
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To: Feline_AIDS

Attention whore.


2 posted on 11/08/2009 6:58:41 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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To: Feline_AIDS

So Chaztitty Bono is a male lesbian now?


3 posted on 11/08/2009 6:58:52 PM PST by runninglips (It was just time for this to come to a head.....)
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To: Feline_AIDS

“And the meat goes on......”

“And the meat goes on”


4 posted on 11/08/2009 7:00:56 PM PST by digger48
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To: Feline_AIDS

You got to wonder if she was born into some middle class, church going average family that she (he) would just be a normal 40 year old woman at this point...


5 posted on 11/08/2009 7:01:34 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Feline_AIDS

She. SHE. All the addadictomy surgery in the world won’t make her male.


6 posted on 11/08/2009 7:02:29 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Feline_AIDS

“His honesty, thoughtfulness, and warmth . . .” Obviously the sex change didn’t make him one of the guys.


7 posted on 11/08/2009 7:02:56 PM PST by healy61
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To: 2banana

Not necessarily. Especially if she was molested as a child.


8 posted on 11/08/2009 7:03:38 PM PST by rabidralph (http://www.thealaskafundtrust.com/ http://www.sarahpac.com)
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To: Feline_AIDS

What a sad story! I do wish that she could meet the Lord Jesus because He would satisfy the needs that the world could never do....


9 posted on 11/08/2009 7:03:46 PM PST by Buddygirl
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To: Feline_AIDS

It appears to me that Chaz has taken the pursuit of happiness seriously. Good for him.


10 posted on 11/08/2009 7:05:16 PM PST by Savage Beast (“If you throw a rock over a fence, it’s the hit dog that hollers.” -Mike Huckabee)
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To: Feline_AIDS

Chaz Bono ...younger Charlie Weis - potential separated at birth? :o)

11 posted on 11/08/2009 7:06:25 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Feline_AIDS

I’ll never understand it.
If you think you’re Napoleon, you’re certifiable. If you believe you’re Jesus or a duck or ANYthing else that you clearly are not, you have a serious mental problem. Institutions are full of deluded mental patients who think they are someone they are not.
But if you’re born one sex and think you’re another you just pretend and everything goes along with it????
Sick- a mental illness.


12 posted on 11/08/2009 7:07:27 PM PST by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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To: Feline_AIDS

I’ll never understand it.
If you think you’re Napoleon, you’re certifiable. If you believe you’re Jesus or a duck or ANYthing else that you clearly are not, you have a serious mental problem. Institutions are full of deluded mental patients who think they are someone they are not.
But if you’re born one sex and think you’re another you just pretend and everyone goes along with it???? Instead of fixing their illness, they change everything to conform to it?
Sick.


13 posted on 11/08/2009 7:08:43 PM PST by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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To: Feline_AIDS

So, she had an addadicktome, huh?


14 posted on 11/08/2009 7:09:04 PM PST by Bushbacker1 ( I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! The "other" Jim Thompson)
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I'm glad Sonny did not get to see this... How ironic to have a name like "Chastity!"


15 posted on 11/08/2009 7:09:28 PM PST by ElPatriota (The SILENCE of the Catholic Church on the war (Actually I heard something..).ues, is ** DEAFENING **)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Oh question here:

If you are a woman and you are “gay”, and then you have a sex change.........

Are you still gay? Or did the surgey cure you since you are now a man, but still psycologically like women?

Comment please:


16 posted on 11/08/2009 7:10:20 PM PST by neverbluffer (But,)
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To: Feline_AIDS

But what about the hydraulics? How do they do that?

I just don’t get it.


17 posted on 11/08/2009 7:12:04 PM PST by SamiGirl
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To: Feline_AIDS

With all this....she’s still not as screwed up as her mother!


18 posted on 11/08/2009 7:13:44 PM PST by Rickcbw
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To: neverbluffer

I have no idea...It’s like a heterosexual man saying that he’s a lesbian trapped in a man’s body - LOL. I guess it’s whatever gets the person the biggest “protection” staus by the government.


19 posted on 11/08/2009 7:14:11 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Feline_AIDS

Very sad. Another horribly mutilated young woman. The left has a real problem with reality. They truly believe in The Wizard of Oz and if they click their heels three times no matter what bizarre thought they might utter PRESTO it is so, no matter how much that thought might fly in the face of reality.


20 posted on 11/08/2009 7:16:29 PM PST by caper gal 1 (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Rastus

It’s a male now. Only in America can a cute little Blonde girl grow up to be a 350-lb. twin of Louie Anderson or a little Black boy born in Gary, Indiana grow up to be an old White woman.


21 posted on 11/08/2009 7:17:25 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: neverbluffer
If you are a woman and you are “gay”, and then you have a sex change......... Are you still gay? Or did the surgey cure you since you are now a man, but still psycologically like women?

Nope! Now, in addition to being a sick twisted freak, she's a surgically mutilated, sick twisted freak.

22 posted on 11/08/2009 7:18:32 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, nothing more than bald haired hippies.)
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To: SamiGirl

I think it’s ferret-operated. The brain sends a signal down there and the ferrets raise the ol’ drawbridge.


23 posted on 11/08/2009 7:19:24 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Savage Beast

I wouldn’t call it “the pursuit of happiness.” She just has some very serious emotional and mental issues. It’s terrible that a surgeon or doctor would go along with it.


24 posted on 11/08/2009 7:22:56 PM PST by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: SamiGirl
How else, but via the miracle of that most manly of hardware. . . .


25 posted on 11/08/2009 7:23:29 PM PST by Salgak (Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border: I dare you to try and cross it. . .)
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To: Rastus

Ah, now it makes sense. LOL


26 posted on 11/08/2009 7:23:44 PM PST by SamiGirl
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To: Bushbacker1
"So, she had an addadicktome, huh?"

Not yet.

27 posted on 11/08/2009 7:23:45 PM PST by Spunky (You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences)
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To: Feline_AIDS
This is sick sick sick.

SICK

28 posted on 11/08/2009 7:23:54 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Feline_AIDS
Got 2 X chromos, your a she.

Morphology does NOT recapitulate ontogeny.

And clothes don't make the man.

And lose some weight.

29 posted on 11/08/2009 7:27:17 PM PST by CaptRon
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To: Feline_AIDS

So Chastity went from being a female dyke to a MALE?

You should see his/her picture. It looks like a chubby one. This person is so messed up. I’m glad Sonny Bono isn’t around to see this freak show. It’s very sad.


30 posted on 11/08/2009 7:27:31 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Feline_AIDS
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I didn't find Chastity to be an obnoxious individual prior to her surgery, so it was even more painful seeing her walking down the perilous path to becoming "Chaz." Going from a seriously overweight woman to a seriously overweight woman who takes costly hormones and has had her breasts taken down by choice, not cancer, is about as sad as things can get. She'll regret this decision, I would imagine, when she realizes she is not "Truly" any happier with a razor in her hand than she was when she was a lesbian "in the wrong body." It seems Cher could have done more to prevent her beautiful daughter from altering herself so profoundly.
31 posted on 11/08/2009 7:28:52 PM PST by mlizzy ("Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person" --Mother Teresa of Calcutta.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

demon possession.


32 posted on 11/08/2009 7:29:24 PM PST by Gapplega (j)
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To: Feline_AIDS

What a sad,sick story. Never thought I would feel sorry for
Sonny Bono. But I sorta do after reading this.
Mabey smacking into that tree at Lake Tahoe wasn’t such
a bad deal after all.


33 posted on 11/08/2009 7:29:41 PM PST by Pompah
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To: Feline_AIDS

It’s not a she!


34 posted on 11/08/2009 7:31:15 PM PST by chris_bdba
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To: nmh

Make no mistake, privately Cher is in hysterics. Remember how she was distraught at first with her lesbianism, only to later realize the inconsistency with her leftist religion. After all, politics comes before family with these people.


35 posted on 11/08/2009 7:34:29 PM PST by Longhair_and_Leather (Don't send a boy to do a man's job, send a woman--Sarah 2012!)
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To: Feline_AIDS
He says the complete transformation will take four or five years and involves surgery and hormone therapy.

Well...isn't that...nice.

But you'll still be a female, you pitiful dumb ass.

36 posted on 11/08/2009 7:35:09 PM PST by OldSmaj (I am an avowed enemy of islam and Obama is a damned fool and traitor. Questions?)
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To: chris_bdba

I mean it is not a he. I’m so confused! :(


37 posted on 11/08/2009 7:35:09 PM PST by chris_bdba
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To: Feline_AIDS

What’s with the descriptive term gender change... “she” to “he?” That’s not accurate. No amount of surgery will change your DNA.


38 posted on 11/08/2009 7:36:05 PM PST by Mike-o-Matic
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
That's all Charlie Weis needs right now after being handed defeat (and the loss of his job?) from Navy.

(Interesting pictures, though.):)
39 posted on 11/08/2009 7:37:04 PM PST by mlizzy ("Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person" --Mother Teresa of Calcutta.)
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To: Rastus

It’s an “it”.


40 posted on 11/08/2009 7:40:11 PM PST by dfwgator
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I bought a hat with a propellor on top. Now I’m an airplane.8^P


41 posted on 11/08/2009 7:40:52 PM PST by YourHatsonBackwards
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To: Salgak

Snap-on tools is good. At least she ... umm ... he can change the size. And it does say high performance.


42 posted on 11/08/2009 7:44:44 PM PST by SamiGirl
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To: Feline_AIDS

I’m truly not not interested in what any heshe has to say or feels.


43 posted on 11/08/2009 7:45:37 PM PST by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!)
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To: SamiGirl

Y’know, that brings up another question: why does it ALWAYS have to be about size ?? (evil grin)


44 posted on 11/08/2009 7:52:05 PM PST by Salgak (Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border: I dare you to try and cross it. . .)
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To: SamiGirl

I have no idea how they do that,either. Not only is it not a real penis,it can’t possibly function the way it was intended to. Why would you want one that isn’t “fully functional”?


45 posted on 11/08/2009 7:59:55 PM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Blessed Be The Name Of The Lord,For His Name Alone Is Exaulted)
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To: Salgak

Shehe doesn’t use Snap On’s.

Shehe is in the process of having her works transformed, pulling from some nether regions to add a little more . . . . er, baggage.

‘Tis true.


46 posted on 11/08/2009 8:00:07 PM PST by carolina71
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To: Longhair_and_Leather

I recall many years ago when Chastity first came out as a lesbian, Cher told an interviewer that Chastity had complained to her that she was unsupportive of Chastity’s then-relationship because it was with a woman, and Cher had responded that the real reason she was unsupportive of the relationship was that “she treats you like dirt”. I think Chastity has had some serious self-worth issues for a long time, and Cher knows it — and probably feels guilty about it, because having a super-feminine star like Cher for a mother is hard to live up to, when you’re chubby and plain-looking. But, no, turning into a sort-of man isn’t going to fix the underlying problem.


47 posted on 11/08/2009 8:00:24 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Salgak

It’s all about the size. It’s not the motion of the ocean, as some might say.


48 posted on 11/08/2009 8:01:35 PM PST by SamiGirl
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To: digger48
“And the meat goes on”

Do they use stitches or staples for that?

49 posted on 11/08/2009 8:02:36 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (Southern by choice ... American by the grace of God)
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN

The whole thing is just beyond my ability to comprehend. I feel sorry for her/him. To mutilate the body God gave her and pretend she’s a man is really sad.


50 posted on 11/08/2009 8:06:38 PM PST by SamiGirl
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