Posted on 11/17/2011 5:20:18 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Chaz Bono received dig after dig during his performance on Dancing With The Stars.
Now Cher's superstar son has been criticised from some unlikely quarters after Warren Beatty and Annette Bening's transgender son blasted Chaz as a misogynist.
Stephen, 19, born Kathlyn, has hit out at the 42-year-old, who underwent female-to-male gender transition between 2008 and 2010.
Writing on his blog Super Mattachine, Stephen took issue with Chaz's view that transgender people have effectively been born with a 'birth defect' - something Bono said in an interview with the New York Times.
Chaz described being transgender as effectively having a 'mismatched' brain and body, akin to a 'birth defect like a cleft palate'.
But Stephen fiercely disagrees: 'I do not have a birth defect. If you feel like you have a birth defect, fine. That’s how you feel. Go feel that,' he wrote on his blog.
He went on: 'Do not put it onto me. Do not define me that way, and do not define other trans people that way unless they claim that label.'
Stephen continued, by branding Chaz a misogynist and saying that he does no represent the views of the transgender community.
'[Chaz] has appointed himself as the representative of a group of people who are not all like him.
'He has said misogynistic... things about gender. I take particular issue with his comments on trans embodiment and on women.'
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You are very welcome. De scratchin' is de better part of velour.
> I'm an old lady, I've heard a lot of stuff.
You have earned the right to henceforth hear only what you choose.
At least Chaz won’t have to deal with the Nantucket limerick.
Wow, that's really...
Wait, what?
*Snort* [giggles] ROFL!
LOL! Be nice, Glocky! Of course Mr. Arrows is all that and more. He is my first FRiend, and we go ‘way back.
You and me both. My mind went blank and I couldn’t figure out what misogynist meant.
Wouldn’t it have been simpler to just stay a woman? This is too weird. I guess the sports world molestation rate has nothing on what goes on in Hollywood.
Wait, I go way back.
I wasn't um...
Wait, what?
Mr. Arrows! Will you give me a little help here please?
It’s a contest in Hollywood - - who can be the sickest.
Darks... did we just hit a continuum shift? I feel about 12 degrees off center here. What gives?
Should I take my post now?
Did anyone have a clear enough sky to see the Leonid meteor shower?
The Old Lady and I are longtime FRiends. She even remembers all my cats’ names, which is more than I do sometimes.
I’ll give you this much: Khartoom is a better rhyme.
Leonids! Oooh. Good idea. Back in a bit. I’ll take the night worthy D700 and see if I can capture something. Dunno yet, winter storm warning for tomorrow, so we might have some clouds overhead. Gotta go look...
Deimos, Misty, and Zia. And we’ve moved beyond FRiends to just friends. I cried when Mr. Arrows’s dog, Janey, passed on.
When I was a kid in school and had to memorize world capitals and stuff, I already remembered that one by thinking of the word "cartoon."
In the last year, I’ve lost Bo, my short haired pointer/black lab, and Shadow, our AKC rottie. He was my wife’s dog, and she went first, six years prior. We’ve got a mini cocker and an blue healer now. There isn’t a safe tennis ball in miles.
Is this a “male lesbian,” as Rush put it? It seems like Kathlyn likes guys, but that’s so weird in Hollywood they have to come up with another explanation. I’m confused, too.
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