Blue Truck, Red State: Transition: Chaz Bono

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Transition: Chaz Bono

Chaz Bono's new book, Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man, has just been published. Here he talks in candid detail about the process of coming to terms with his real self:

I wish him all good luck and much happiness. I can't help thinking how much harder it must be to come out - if that's the right phrase - as a transman, when it's damn hard enough to come out as a gay man. I admire his courage and honesty.

I could say more, but since I have more questions than knowledge, guess I'll leave it there.

1 comment:

Stan said...: I could never completely understand anyone doing something like this. I guess I love myself as a man too much to even imagine wanting to change into a woman. But I guess like they say you have to walk in someone elses shoes to fully get what they're going though. Good luck to all of them!; May 12, 2011 at 12:57 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu