Posted on 05/10/2011 4:27:47 AM PDT by TSgt
Cher spent months avoiding her transgender son Chaz Bono as he went through the process to become a man. She says she was terrified she wouldn't recognize him as her child.
Bono was born Chastity - Cher and ex-husband Sonny Bono's only daughter - and she broke her mother's heart when she came out as a lesbian. Chaz feared more heartbreak was to come when he revealed his plans to undergo a lengthy and extensive sex change procedure, but Cher took the news well.
However, once the process started, the pop superstar kept her distance.
In new documentary Becoming Chaz, which debuted on Oprah Winfrey's new OWN network, Cher says, "I was so nervous. I hadn't seen her... and I was putting it off.
"My boyfriend finally said, 'This is crazy, just do it.' I said, 'I'm so terrified of what will happen. If I don't recognize her, what will happen?"
Cher admits there are many changes she's slowly having to come to terms with: "At some point, I'm gonna have to start calling her 'him'... It doesn't seem comfortable to me yet. Actually I just can't remember... and I guess I'll start forcing myself... (but) I'm not sure she cares."
She reveals she asked her transgender son if she could have a copy of his old voicemail message - because it was her daughter speaking.
She adds, "I was hysterical one day because I was calling Chaz's answering machine and I realized it was her old voice, and then I said, 'Chaz is there a way I can save it because I will never hear that voice again?' And there wasn't, it was gone.
"That's the most traumatic thing that has happened to me in this whole thing - hearing her voice and knowing I'll never hear it again."
Great idea !
But we need a massive dose for Bonehead, Cantor, Romney, Daniels , Brown, McConnell , Lugar, McCain, Grahamnesty etc....
“Cher has a right to be terrified”
I disagree. Cher is a hypocrite IMHO. Follow me on this: Chastity was suppose to support Cher as her Mother when she was doing all the crazy/slutty things during her life. However, Cher can now show an outrage because her daughter changed sexes?
Deeply trouble person. The medical and mental health systems in our country just perpetuate the problems for people like this. Its truly an abomination.
Does this mean she’s no longer a lesbian?
“Ummm, where do they get the man parts?”
POTUS doesn’t appear to be using his: maybe he donated them to the cause...
Correct.
She now dates men.
Which, as far as I can determine, makes her a female hetero-sexual with mangled genitals.
“She got the sex change to become male and is gay now?????”
According to the story, she was gay before too: so she went from being a lesbian to a gay male. You are not alone in being VERY confused about how that could happen. If as a woman you were sexually attracted to woman, it’s hard to understand how becoming a man would alter that. No doubt this is horrifically un-PC to point out.
You think they should start a donor bank?
You owe me a keyboard! LOL
May God be with this person..............she/he seems to be one demented soul.
I thought Chaz had a girlfriend - for like 6 years? I just heard Chaz on the radio yesterday - she/he said she/he had a girlfriend.
“The medical and mental health systems in our country just perpetuate the problems for people like this. Its truly an abomination.”
Agreed. Excellent post, Drift.
She was adorable. I bet if her father was alive this would have never happened. If I had a mother like Cher I would be screwed up also.
He is plenty of that......he needs the coconuts.......
No, it was Cher’s boyfriend encouraging her to contact Chaz.
Chaz still has his/her lesbian girlfriend, but based on the Oprah show yesterday...I don’t think it is for too long.
Let’s face it if the lesbian girlfriend doesn’t like men...she isn’t going to stay. Yeah, you could tell in the interview the girlfriend isn’t happy.
chaz likes the ladies
chaz bats for the home team
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/51113402-76/chaz-oprah-film-premiere.html.csp
...from a guy who had a takeadickoffame
The medical term is actually a Lopitoffame.
>>> The medical and mental health systems in our country just perpetuate the problems for people like this. Its truly an abomination.
That’s the bottom line on this process. The doctors pushing this should lose their license.
As to Chas/Chaz, people are misunderstanding. There was no ACTUAL surgical sex change. The breasts were removed (as a cancer patients might be), and male hormones administered. However the vagina remains intact. There is a procedure to “manufacture” a penis but it is a crude process and the patient runs the risk of losing sexual nerver receptivity totally. Chaz decided not to risk it.
Chas can call herself Chaz, people change their names for many reasons and nobody gives it much thought. However the “sex change” business has degenerated more into a matter of self-mutilation and opinion.
It’s my understanding most people who undergo this process soon come to regret the decision. It’s mostly just a means of running from a problem. But you can’t outrun yourself.
>>> I said, ‘Chaz is there a way I can save it because I will never hear that voice again?’ And there wasn’t, it was gone.
That’s rather divaish like she is about to dramatically swoon. If nothing else she should have a copy of Chastity’s old record album. Before she put on the weight she briefly tried for a recording career. I once watched her and her partner ( some fellow who looked remarkably close to Sonny) and the truth is she wasn’t bad. They had a decent sound.
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