Well, whatever floats your boat.

none of MY business....!

I'm a girlie female - I can't begin to imagine how it must feel to know in your head and live in your life that you are male stuck in a female body or vice versa. That must be a daily torture we can't comprehend. I'm glad she lives in a time in medical history when she can choose to do something that will help living in her own skin bearable.

Sounds strange. I've heard of male to female sex changes, I'm not really familiar with female to male. I know sex change candidates all go thru psychological counselling first.

I agree with mylab (except I'm not a real girlie girl type!)

I know someone who was born a girl, got married, had a child, then became a man. She was 2 years behind me in high school, we worked in the school library together, she was in my brother's graduating class. She was always a tomboy but looked like a girl.

I haven't seen him since the sex change but I have seen pics and a video of him on Facebook. He looks like a guy, talks like a guy (and has an amazing singing voice and plays the guitar like a pro).

I agree with mylab as well, and I am sure the girl I went to high school with is much happier and fulfilled as a man than he ever would have been as a woman.

One of my close friends/coworkers is a female to male transexual. He identified as a woman when we first met and became friends and then approached me about a year ago asking what I thought of her becoming a man. I said, "whatever makes you happy!". He has been on hormones for some time now, and is starting to look pretty manly, facial hair, etc...and has been saving money for a mastectomy. He had to go through extensive therapy before even beginning the hormones. He has said all along that he has always felt like a man, and had finally started a relationship with someone who was open to the idea and supportive, so he decided to go for it. He still has some difficulty dealing with the transition (mostly due to other people's reactions), but our employer has been extremely supportive. When he changed his name, our executive director sent out an email to the entire agency letting everyone know and encouraged everyone to please be supportive because it takes real bravery to make this sort of decision. I agree, I couldn't even imagine! Anyways, it took a little while to get used to the name change, and even longer to get used to the pronouns, but I can barely even remember thinking of him as a female now.

A few months ago female-to-male transgender was featured on Dr. 90210. The person became a man and it talked about and showed his girlfriend - very interesting hour!

Totally agree. I know a male who changed to female. I think it is incredibly brave. Imagine how strongly they must feel it to be willing to withstand society's judgement, potentially losing "friends", family, and all. It has got to be incredibly hard. I totally respect my friend's gender change. She is so happy now.

wow, to take it that far. Must really be heartfelt.
She will do well with whatever life brings her I think.

Trin

My aunt was Chastity's baby nurse when she was one year old. I met Chastity a couple of times while my aunt was caring for her. I remember my aunt being shocked when it was announced that Chastity was gay. It must be horrible to feel like you should have been the opposite sex.

I've known a lot of male to female reassignments but have only met one (that I know of) female to male reassignment.

The F>M reassignment is not as successful nor is it requested as often and M>F.

The news stories are already using the masculine pronouns and the name 'Chaz' to identify her in the news stories. That is going to take some getting use to and can be confusing at first.

Her mother Cher was not initially supportive when Chastity opened up about her lesbianism, which I found very surprising.

Heavens knows that Cher is certainly not against plastic surgery and hopefully will be supportive with this further development.

I say also what ever makes them happy....I can't imange being trapped in the opposite body....I feel very strong that and I say this lightly.....most gays are born that way....and you can tell from such a early age...so more power to them...glad they have counceling to them and It would not make a diff to me as long as they were happy!! Being happy with yourself is what it is all about not what others or society thinks of you...Stacy

Too bad the media has to make a circus out of everything.

I did not see any media circus at all. It was just an announcement.

Chastity/Chaz is an outspoken, prominent gay right activist who appears in that capacity, in the media all the time. She had her publicist send the announcement out and speak to the press about her decision.

Since this is a medical decision she could have kept it private if she had so wished. I think that some sort of announcement was necessary due to all her public appearances. It would have been too confusing to just have some "new" person named Chaz suddenly appear out of nowhere and claim Cher to be their mother.

I don't consider this a "media circus" at all. A 'media circus' would be more something like noting the extreme resemblance Chastity/Chaz has to Greg Allman and doing an article on it. Hmmmm.

I think it's great that she has the comfort level needed to openly talk about her lifestyle. I have always tried to allow other people to live a lifestyle they enjoy, as long as it doesn't interfere with mine.