Chaz Bono: Really?

I'm sorry if I'm out of line here, and I just want to go on the record  as saying I have absolutely no issue one way or the other when people feel "out of place in their bodies" and want to get gender reassignment surgery.  Actually, if they really feel that way, then I think it's great that science has finally caught up and can help them become their true selves in that way, because I am sure that is a 
terrible way to feel.  I am a little confused by the "pregnant man" thing (like, why transition to becoming a man but then do a womanly thing like having a baby), but, ok I guess.  To each his or her own.

This new and improved, male Chaz Bono is where I have to draw the line, though.  I honestly don't understand why you would choose to become an overweight middle aged man, which is what he did, right?  How is no one saying anything about this, dude?

I just don't get this, if only for health reasons.  He doesn't look to  be any happier (and certainly is not healthier) in this new form.  I'm not sure this is a healthy example for gender confused people, when the new Chaz Bono looks like he now has a blood pressure issue and he's always frowning.  I'm glad that his mom (Cher, of course) and his (surprisingly hot) girlfriend are supportive of his decision to transition, but am I the only one who is going to mention that he's turned himself into a trucker?

I guess I'm just curious.  You go through all the work of a gender transition, and then you can't go to a gym or pick a good hairsylte?  This seems weird to me.  You wanted to be a man, and you didn't choose as your example Tom Cruise, or Clark Gable, or Brad Pitt?  I know, not everything in life is based on outward appearance and my observations are totally subjective, but...wasn't he trying to change the outward part of himself so it reflected the inside more?  Am I to conclude from his new appearance that inside he always just felt like former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Tony Saragusa?  

In conclusion---really, Chaz Bono?  Seriously?  This new you is very hard to take.   Please, explain this new you, because we are all supportive of the transition, but we are really wondering about the new style.  

That is all.

Comments

[Shannon]

I know...it's a little weird. All I can think is that the overweight part is leftover from unhappiness as the wrong gender? (Hasn't he had a weight problem for awhile now, since before becoming at he? I think he was on Celebrity Fit Club at one point. Don't ask me how I know this.) And that maybe he'll lose the weight once the gender reassignment is done and he feels fulfilled? I don't know.

By the way, have I ever mentioned that I semi-seriously worry about my toddler ending up with gender identity disorder? She does all the things you always hear the parents say about their adult child once he/she has changed sex: "She always liked boy things and insisted she was a boy, from the time she was a toddler! She never wore skirts! She played the daddy role when playing house with her sister!" Genevieve all the way. She likes trucks, firefighters, and trains, her alter egos are "Big Boy," Barack Obama, and a cat named George, and she says she's the brother or the dad when playing pretend with Julia. She refuses to wear dresses or skirts (sometimes I am able to force the issue for a photo or holiday). She told me the other day that she's not having babies when she grows up. When I asked her why, she said because she's not going to be a mama; she's going to be a daddy. Sigh?

(Clarification: I would not love her any less. I think in all seriousness GID would be a totally hellish existence and as a psychologist I really believe it's a brain/neuro aberration people are born with. I would just die of a broken heart to see my own child suffer with it as a kid, though. Have you ever seen any of those documentaries or interviews with kids going through it? So terrible. Before you start thinking I'm crazy, I do understand many kids go through phases like this, and I'm not REALLY all that worried. But it does make you think.)

[Jeff]

Well ya know what? The new Chaz doesn't exist for you "to take." Chaz doesn't have to explain shit to you.

[Carol]

So I can only interpret that Chaz Bono has been in a lesbian relationship with a woman who by definition is attracted to the same sex.If Chaz Bono now considers herself a man exactly what does this say about Jennifer Elia’s sexual preference, i.e. she is supposedly attracted to women? So now she is attracted to the male persona, the animus that has become the dominating factor in Chaz Bono’s psyche.Why didn’t Elia just skip the grueling pretext and find a male partner to begin with, that is, if we are now to consider Chaz Bono a man?

If a person is truly concerned with the inner self of an individual,as opposed to a self created persona, why go through the elaborate ordeal of a sex change? Every woman has her animus and every man has his anima, however it is a little confusing when eventually what is defined as an (attraction to the same sex) becomes something entirely different.

So Jennifer Elia is now sexually attracted to the male attributes, or masculine attributes of Chaz Bono, in other words she is attracted to the image of a man,the physical attributes and characteristics of a male (minus one integral sine qua non), yet considers herself a lesbian.

Chaz Bono has every right to be whatever she identifies her true self to be, but this does get a little confusing.I'm just curious, if Chaz Bono could get a functioning penis, would her partner be attracted to it, have intercourse and oral sex with it. Also what would distinguish any contrast between Jennifer Elia's attraction to masculine attributes and male sexual attributes in Chaz bono,and the sexual preferences of a heterosexual female?