Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid. Chaz Bono More Quotes by Chaz Bono More Quotes From Chaz Bono 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 acting strong identity As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender. Chaz Bono fit confusing pressure Being self-supporting is important to me. Chaz Bono important self 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 mother mean people When you transition, everyone kind of has to transition around you. Chaz Bono everyone you transition kind 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 yourself you gender identity I feel really good, I feel like a man now, and I'm really happy. Chaz Bono feel good man happy 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 boy like me friends 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 woman like me body 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 boy thought community way I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me. Chaz Bono child me always time I was never religious. Chaz Bono never religious 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 long-time community time long 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 thought you hair life
