American - Celebrity | March 4, 1969 -
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
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For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.
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I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.
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I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.
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When I was really little, it was very clear to me that I felt like a boy, and my friends were all boys.
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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.
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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.
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When you transition, everyone kind of has to transition around you.
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In school I related to boys.
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I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.
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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.
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I was never religious.
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