A biography for Chaz Bonohasn’t been written yet.
“People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.”
“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.”
“I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.”
“When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?”
“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.”
“I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to be confusing, all this stuff, it's crazy.”
“I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.”
“I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation.”
“I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.”
“I've waited my whole life to be able to have body hair - but I never thought I'd have back hair. But what are you going to do, right?”
“Being self-supporting is important to me.”
“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.”
“I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.”
“Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.”