Cher on Chaz: 'She's a Very Smart Girl -- Boy!'

It's taking Cher some time to get used to having a son named Chaz Bono, rather than a daughter named Chastity. In the new
Vanity Fair, the singing icon talks candidly about her first born child's gender-reassignment surgery last year, and why it's been hard wrapping her head around it.
"If I woke up tomorrow in a guy's body, I would just kick and scream and cry and f****ing rob a bank, because I cannot see myself as anything but who I am -- a girl. I would not take it as well as Chaz has. I couldn't imagine it," she says.
Cher, who has aired her confusion about Chaz's choice before, even mixes up his gender in casual conversations. "Well, she's a very smart girl -- boy! This is where I get into trouble. My pronouns are f***ed. I still don't remember to call her 'him,'" she admits.

When asked whether her children are still angry with her, Cher told VF, "I think Chaz is pretty much finished with it, and I think Elijah [her son with Gregg Allman] has a little longer to go, but they both really love me a lot. But it's hard."
Chaz's transformation became official, in a legal sense, back in May when a judge granted the 41-year-old activist's request to change his name from Chastity to Chaz and to switch his gender identification to male.
In June 2009, Cher offered her support for Chaz, saying that she respects "the courage it takes to go through this transition in the glare of public scrutiny, and although I may not understand, I will strive to be understanding."
► Read more from Cher in the new
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that chaz a he or she still ugly like mom
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CHER, CHASITY IS FEMALE AND WILL ALWAYS BE SO YOU GO RIGHT ON CALLING HER WHAT SHE IS....A FEMALE! NOT YOUR FAULT YOUR DAUGHTER IS MESSED UP IN HER HEAD. SO YOU CALL HER WHAT SHE IS, A SHE! IF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK, SOUNDS LIKE A DUCK, THEN IT IS A DUCK. IF SHE WAS BORN FEMALE, GREW UP FEMALE, THEN SHE IS FEMALE. IT IS THAT SIMPLE. CHASITY CAN KID HERSELF ALL SHE WANTS. SHE IS NO MAN AND SHE NEVER WILL BE. SHE IS UGLY NOW. SHE IS BIG, AND FAT, AND A JOKE.....FEEL SO SORRY FOR YOU CHER. I CANNOT IMAGINE HAVING A DAUGHTER WHO WOULD DO THIS TO HERSELF.
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You are so ignorant I feel sorry for you.
Linney, it's YOUR mother you should be weeping for. To give birth to someone as stupid as you is a real tragedy. Please just sit yourself down in front of the TV and watch your
FUX news and forget to vote ok? Idiot.
Linney....I cant imagine a woman who calls someone elses child a "big, fat joke" I pity your daughter who has to explain why her Mother is a fruit loop.... As for Cher and her family why should any of us judge them? I hope they find peace of mind and love in their hearts for each other and enjoy all life has to offer.
Chaz.... keep on doing what you are doing! You have every right to seek out what you think yuo need to do. If you believe you are in the wrong body, change it. You can do it. You did it. Do what you need to do. Don't let the other petty nitwits tell you any differently. If God didn't want you to make the change then He would not have made available the processes to do that. Just to it and move on with your life and be successful in life and love. GO CHAZ!!!!!
What's with all the yelling? Turn the 'caps' off, makes you look stupid!
I'm one of the most open-minded people I know, but like Cher, I've had some trouble getting my own head around this too. But unlike Linney, I can't and won't speak in such arrogant absolutes.
Chastity was never happy as a female, so she did what she thought she had to do to make it right. If Chastity is happier as this man named Chaz, great. Besides, it's none of anyone else's business.
Linney, I agree with you.....apparently this is a gay site, so best we leave them to each other!!
omigosh, when you consider the millions of cells in the human body that must work just so to create what we are, it's astounding that most of the time they produce the exact sterotype you are talking about. But so many things can go wrong..conjoined twins, missing limbs, inate stupidity, that it is impossible to say that everyone is the same. What does born Female mean? What does born stupid mean? What does born mean mean?
Tell me if you have knowledge of any genetic testing that was done? I seriously doubt that you do or would even understand it. I can't even feel sorry for you in your ignorance and mean attitude. I hope that you never have any children as their lives would be pure torture and shame.
Glad to see there is at least one other normal person still out there !! You are born as you were intended and that is that...If SHE was meant to be born a male SHE would have been. There's no choosing what you WANT to be.
You should go back to school if you think drugs don't affect gene's
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Chastity u will always be a woman. Surgery will never make u a man.
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good Lord what a nasty mess...yuck...this article makes me sick.
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Chaz is still good looking like his beautiful Mom .. looks like he has a issue with weight .. hope he nips that in the bud ..I wish Chaz all the luck in the world and hope he is happy ..
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He can do what he wants. But he's like me. Fat and over weight. LOL We both need to go on a diest
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"He" is not a "he".
"He" is a freakin' messed up "she".
Ugly he/she. But I am sure it is real proud of Mom too, dirty mouth and she eats with that mouth???? Really messed up people.
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She was a ugly woman and even a uglier guy!!
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