Chaz Bono

End of Gender: Bringin' Out the Bono

TV post by Malic White on May 3, 2012 - 12:12pm; tagged ABC, Chaz Bono, reality tv.

With hidden cameras and a hint of pedantry, ABC's primetime series What Would You Do? has tested society's comfort with everything from same-sex parents to public breastfeeding. This week's segment tackles transphobia and reveals what we already knew: No conversation about transgender people is complete without bringing out the Bono.

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BiblioBitch: Chaz Bono's Book of Mixed Messages

Books post by Deb Jannerson on May 26, 2011 - 11:17am; tagged celebrity culture, Chaz Bono, Cher, memoir, trans identity, trans men.

BiblioBitch logo with "BIBLIO" in purple and "BITCH" in black, next to a little purple cartoon worm with black cats eye glasses reading a purple book

Cover photo of Transition by Chaz Bono. Cover is silver with a big photo of Chaz, a large man with short brown hair wearing a button-down dark blue shirt, smiling. The top of the cover reads "CHAZ BONO with Billie Fitzpatrick", also in dark blue, and the book title, "TRANSITION", appears halfway down the cover, half-silver, half-blue. The subtitle "The Story of How I Became a Man" is just below the title in small white italics. Image via indiebound.

Chaz Bono's new memoir, Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man, co-written with Billie Fitzpatrick, brims with candid emotion. It covers his entire life so far, and as the title implies, it frequently comes back to Chaz's lifelong discomfort with being thought to be female and his gradual acceptance of himself as a trans guy. Unfortunately, it's also full of sexist statements about who men and women can be.

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