Chaz Bono Quotes
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It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.
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I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.
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I've waited my whole life to be able to have body hair - but I never thought I'd have back hair. But what are you going to do, right?
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There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.
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Being self-supporting is important to me.
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For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.
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In school I related to boys.
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I came out around 25 publicly.
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I always had this idea that, 'Sure, I wished I was a boy and felt more like a boy and all of that.' But I wasn't, so I would deal with it. And I for some reason thought there were other lesbians that felt that way and that was just part of that community.
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I feel so much more comfortable that I've ever been. I've felt male as far back as I can remember.
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I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to be confusing, all this stuff, it's crazy.
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Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.
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I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.
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I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more focused on the 'T' now than I was on the 'L' or the 'G.'
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When I was really little, it was very clear to me that I felt like a boy, and my friends were all boys.
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I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to.
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What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
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I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.
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When you transition, everyone kind of has to transition around you.
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I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.