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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Some of you people are so vicious. Neither Cher nor Chaz have that in them. Guess being born mean and vicious is in the genes. No nips or tucks will change that.
Good luck in the future, Chaz.
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Very well said Sendai.
If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. So I won't say anything.
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CHER - my idol. Always was and always will be. LOVE YOU CHER!
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There certainly are a lot of ignorant people posting on this matter. My only question is who has ANY right to say anything about what Chaz Bono was or is ... it is obviously a difficult transition he has made and I'd be willing to bet that if you had never seen a picture of him ... you would never know that he was once a she. So tell me this what business is it of yours to question what Chaz had to go through. I wish him happiness and contentment.
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Chasity was a cute little girl, what happened to her?
She's really slipped. You are what you are when you are
born. She doesn't look female or male. Weird, besides
being over weight. She has shamed her whole family.
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WOW 'HE' REALLY GAINED A LOT OF WEIGHT, THAT NECK IS HUGE. SO ANYWHO, I AM HAVING A HARD TIME WITH THE SURGERY, DID SHE GET A WORKING PENIS AND TESTICLES OR JUST SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE A BULGE IN HER PANTS. I DON'T GET IT, WHY WOULD SOMEONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WANT.... OH WAIT, SHE/HE IS NOT RIGHT IN THE MIND. POOR CHER SHE HAS BEEN THRU SO MUCH AND NOW HER DAUGHTER DOES THIS OMG. SO WHAT'S UP WITH THE REAL BOY, ELIJAH BLUES? IS HE MESSED UP TOO. WHAT DID THEY MEAN BY HER KIDS FORGIV ING HER? DID SHE DO SOMETHING TO THE KIDS THAT MADE THEM GET MESSED UP? IF THE BOY IS, PROBABLY FROM HIS FATHER, HE'S A REAL DRUGGIE..
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He/she she/he who in the heck cares what the morf is...he/she is ugly and pertty apt to stay that way...Boy what a life..Not knowing what you are and even your mother can't tell what you are..An IT is about as best to describe this thing...
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Sometimes real love is tested. I'm sure Cher had problems dealing with this, who wouldn't. The big difference between her and some of the "christian" types is that she appears to be loving her child and understanding her child. That's something the majority out there could learn to do.
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She still looks like a girl. The "stars" children don't have much of a chance to grow up normally.
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Cher didn't make a mistake. She gave birth to a GIRL!
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Horrors! And not just "Chaz", but Cher, as well....
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It was born a woman and it will die a woman. No surgery will ever change what a person really is.
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For God's sake - why attack the lady? It is hard to understand things you can't understand - she has supported her child - because this is her child whom she loves - she cannot understand the pain of what she does not know... I see the same hate rhetoric on a myriad of subjects...
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With so many self proclaimed experts on mental problems, biology problems, drug problems, sexual abuse, etc...can't help but wonder why there are so many in the world that they are not helping. Could it be because they are without real knowledge and just their ignorant thinking? that is my bet. Anyone??
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I'm sure Sonny is rolling over in his grave
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Male or female that is one disgusting fat blob! Jillian Michaels needs to make an emergency housecall.
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Good for Chaz and Cher, much love and respect to both.
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Cher didn't have the brains or the initiatve to graduate from high school.
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this chastidy bono is still a woman. there is no surgery that can change that fact. no man has xx chromosomes EVER!
this whole gender i.d. thing is utter rubbish- it promotes denial.
going by the logic of gender i.d. i could claim that i am superman trapped in an ordinary persons body. now, does that make me superman or just some loon in denial?
gender i.d. logic would say i am indeed superman!
this gender i.d. thing needs to be addressed as the garbage it is!
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