Chaz Bono Glad About Sex Change Op

Chastity Bono, now Chaz Bono, underwent a sex change operation after years of knowing what she truly was inside, which was a man.  She says that it’s the best decision for her, and that she didn’t want to go through her whole life wondering what it would have been like to have all male equipment and live like a man truly, so she finally went ahead and had the gender reassignment surgery and the hormone therapy so that she could fully embody what it was to be a man. Her partner, a woman, agrees that it was the best decision, and has been supportive of Chaz’ operations and attempt to become what she feels she was always destined to be.

Chaz, formerly Chastity, was born a girl to celebrities Sonny and Cher, 40 years ago, and says that she always felt like a male inside and knew that she was not, at the very least, a heterosexual female.  She came out of the closet and announced herself formally as a lesbian over ten years ago, and says she’d been toying with the idea of having a sex change operation for a while, and wanted to do it while she was still young enough to enjoy the full benefits of what it truly felt like to be a biological male.

She has been a GLBT activist and spokesperson for some time now, and now may also start to be a spokesperson for transgender men and women, at least that would make sense. When one undergoes sex reassignment surgery, they essentially are getting the male or female genitalia that they are biologically missing, and they also undergo some form of hormone therapy so that they can also develop other male or female characteristics, besides just the genitalia.

Women may develop more facial hair, for example, and deeper voices, while men who undergo surgery may undergo different changes, such as softer skin and less facial hair as well as higher pitched voices. It’s fascinating that we can actually control the gender we are by simply administering hormones.