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Until I really accepted this about myself and got over any of my own transphobia that I had, I really felt like I wouldn't be accepted. I thought I would ruin my life. — Chaz Bono

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It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother. — Chaz Bono

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A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family. — Chaz Bono

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So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I was a lesbian, and didn't realize that that wasn't the case. It was the fact that I was a man and a heterosexual man. The issue wasn't my sexual orientation, but rather my gender identity. — Chaz Bono

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I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me. — Chaz Bono

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I wanted to show America a different kind of man. If there was someone like me when I was growing up, my whole life would have been different. — Chaz Bono

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I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff. — Chaz Bono

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When you transition, everyone kind of has to transition around you. — Chaz Bono

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I want to create a place where trans people and our allies could come together to share experiences, information and ideas. Being transgender or loving someone who is transgender can be challenging in our society and I hope that members of this site will also use this space as a place to support and encourage each other. Together, we can strengthen our community and open the hearts and minds of others. — Chaz Bono

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I've been embraced by a new community. That's what happens when you're finally honest about who you are; you find others like you. — Chaz Bono

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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. — Chaz Bono

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Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But I'm an activist - that's just the kind of person I am. — Chaz Bono

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What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life. — Chaz Bono

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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? — Chaz Bono

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I feel really good, I feel like a man now, and I'm really happy. — Chaz Bono

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I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life. — Chaz Bono

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I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation. — Chaz Bono

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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. — Chaz Bono

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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. — Chaz Bono

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Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid. — Chaz Bono

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Gender is between your ears and not between your legs. — Chaz Bono

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When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected? — Chaz Bono

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In school I related to boys. — Chaz Bono

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People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television. — Chaz Bono

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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. — Chaz Bono

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I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys. — Chaz Bono

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Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had. — Chaz Bono

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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. — Chaz Bono

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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.' — Chaz Bono

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Being self-supporting is important to me. — Chaz Bono

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I was never religious. — Chaz Bono

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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. — Chaz Bono

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As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender. — Chaz Bono

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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. — Chaz Bono

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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. — Chaz Bono

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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. — Chaz Bono

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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. — Chaz Bono

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I don't have the luxury of doing things privately. — Chaz Bono

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Fears are not facts. — Chaz Bono