The Reluctant Transgender Role Model, Chaz Bono (Sunday NY Times.com Front page)

NY Times ^ | 5/8/11 | Cintra Wilson

[SanFranDan]

Chaz Bono, Sonny and Cher’s daughter, now a man, is the subject of a documentary about his transition.

[Luke21]

Swell.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

The poster child for the need to parent with unconditional love and selfless devotion. God help us.

[Grunthor]

Chaz Bono, Sonny and Cher’s daughter, now a genitally mutilated woman....

[Mr. K]

"Chaz Bono, Sonny and Cher’s daughter, now pretending to be a man"

There... fixed it.

[RnMomof7]

I feel so sorry for “ Chastity” ...a child given a name from a mother that lived as a sex symbol... how easy it would to see women as nothing more than objects and so hater her own gender..

[Mandingo Conservative]

Yeah, no matter how many operations - you are still genetically what you were at birth. She is still a she and also a very disturbed she. She has a mental problem.

[Psycho_Bunny]

It’s not “reluctant”....this is 100%, pure attention whorism.

[CaptainK]

Cher’s Mother’s Day card from the Times.

[Artcore]

I truly believe, deep in the heart of homosexuals and transgenders (whatever that is), they know this perversion goes against every law of nature. That’s why they’ve gone from wanting others to just “accept” them, to now wanting “approval.”

Sorry, not gonna happen. I feel very sorry for “Chaz” Bono. What a sick messed up person. I really hope you lets God change her heart and show her true acceptance and freedom.

[Brilliant]

[Cowboy Bob]

Chaz Bono, Sonny and Cher’s daughter, now a man, is the subject of a documentary about his transition.

Hey, Chaz! Can you play "fireman?" If, you can't then you are not a man.

[FrdmLvr]

I’m glad Sonny doesn’t have to witness this.

[LibLieSlayer]

She had... as Rush calls them... an adadichtame.

LLS

[Shannon]

I feel so sorry for “ Chastity” ...a child given a name from a mother that lived as a sex symbol...

Good point. In reading the article, I got the feeling we're supposed to think that Cher had no influence over this mess. But there's just no getting away from the name, Chastity, given to her/him by the sex symbol mother.

If there were any significance or unconscious desire attached in naming her child Chastity, it sure backfired.

[KosmicKitty]

Very disturbing if you read the whole thing.

At this point in his transition, Chaz is in his “second puberty,” a six- to seven-year process of hormone injections. The medical technology for genital reconstruction surgery (masculine genitoplasty, for a transgender man like Chaz) is still too new, expensive, imperfect and risky for him to opt for “bottom surgery.”

“I am in a holding pattern,” he said. “The payoff just isn’t quite enough. I wish I had a penis, but I am O.K. for now.”

[Texas Eagle]

So, does Cher still call it a daughter?

[Texas Eagle]

I wish I had a penis

So does John Boehner.

[Anti-Bubba182]

We live in twisted times. I bet Cher was thrilled!

[Texas Eagle]

How’s that Bible passage go? Something about calling evil good and calling dark light or some such thing.