Singer Cher and Chaz Bono.
The singer still for a long time addressed Chaz as her daughter, confused constantly in pronouns – he, she, her, his… She could not get used to a man’s voice in the phone and accept the fact that Chaz is still her daughter Chastity. It had taken Cher a long time to realise that it had taken her daughter much more courage to make the transition from woman to man than it had taken her to understand her son.
She consoled herself with the fact that her child was now happy, even though he had to go through the hatred of others. In his book Family Picnic, Chaz Bono talked about the amount of threats he received. They wanted to physically kill him, wipe him off the face of the earth. The flow of negativity exceeded all his expectations. Fortunately, the threats turned out to be just words, but at the time, Chaz seriously considered the danger that was looming over him.
Chaz Bono and Shara Blue.
He made a film ‘Becoming Chaz’, where he spoke in detail about his sex change and the difficulties associated with it. And in 2017, his favourite woman appeared in his life – actress Shara Blue. In January 2023, they celebrated 6 years of life together.
All the problems were left behind, today Chaz Bono feels quite satisfied with life. He has to take hormones every day, because of them it is difficult for him to control his weight. But Chaz has learnt to adjust his diet, lost almost 40 kilos and admits: it is much easier than living in a body that you do not accept.
Mum and son.
The life of transgender people is full of difficulties, but many of them find their happiness after the change of sex. In the UK, for example, a man and a woman who survived sex reassignment surgery have married. Captain Hannah Winterbourne was born a man and her husband Jake Graf was formerly a woman.