Dan Savage’s It Gets Better Project continues to get bigger: Chaz Salvatore Bono, the son of Cher and Sonny Bono, has released his own video encouraging LGBT youth to remain positive and describing his struggle coming out as a transgender man a year and a half ago. “Even as an adult, I was living with this secret, and feeling weird. And I got it out, and, once again, I feel great. And I found myself in a new community, and embraced,” he says in the video. “If I had left any of the fear that I had at different points throughout my life, in high school, feeling different, and even as an older person feeling different. If I had done something drastic and missed out on that, I would have been missing out on the greatest life, and the best times in my life.” (See video embedded below.)
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Good for him <3
Continues to “get bigger”? How rude!
lol That really is an unfortuante lead for this item.
where does it say “get bigger”?
he sad “gets better”!
Hahahahaha! I think Jabba the It there will probably send the suicide rate skyrocketing!
moron
No matter how the media trys to spin this, it will never be mainstream in America. I’m all for everyone living their lives how they see fit, but you can’t shove this down America’s throats and call it normal.
I feel like he said he was different so many times and that it took awhile to find a community of people that were different that the last thing someone should take away from this video is anything about the world “normal.”
Not that I agree with anything you said. It’s normal to be *different* in some way and I think diversity is an intregral part of mainstream America, but I still think it’s a weird comment given the video.
Nice show of tolerance there. How can you equate a movement that is trying to raise awareness of a very real issue with “shoving this down America’s throats?” You could say the same thing about any awareness movement–”ooh, all those pink-ribboned breast cancer people are shoving this whole ‘check yourself’ thing down people’s throats. Wah wah wah.”
I am sorry, but she is still and always will be a woman. You may be able to change the outside but you can not change your dna- and hers is female.
There’s more to gender identity than DNA or what’s between one’s legs. No one truly understands it.
I agree Belle. She is and always will be a woman.
Really, it’s not for you to decide.
Its sad to think who you are is wrong in some way. I’m a 100% women I love it. She didn’t so she did something about it.
I feel for her now him. To be born in a body that’s all wrong for you must be painful. The confusion the questions of self. Wow
If she where my child her happiness would be the most important. No one can explain it or live it for her. It is what it is. We should stop judging and try to except the fact human beings are all different. We are destroying each other due to lack of compassion. This may not be your cup of tea but don’t deny some one else the right to enjoy it. Live and let live.
This isn’t about what you think is acceptable or normal. This project is about preventing teens from committing suicide. Can we keep that in mind, please?