Cher’s Daughter Undergoing Gender Reassignment Process

She’s making a big mistake and once she’s made it there will be no going back. I say, she should lose the weight and live her life as a happy lesbian just as Ellen, Jodie, Melissa and many many others.

While I’m sure in the new Obamacare plan, overweight people will not receive health care bacause they caused their own problems. However I’ll bet money anything to do with gays, aids, stds, gender reasignment will all be a “right” in the re-making of America as a homonation.
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I’M SORRY BUT THE WORLD HAS BECOME A BIT TOO FREE

I’M SHOCKED THAT DOCTORS EVEN PERFORM THIS KIND OF SURGERY

IF YOUR BORN A WOMEN, GOD INTENDED YOU TO BE A WOMEN

THE ONLY REASON I COULD JUSTIFY THIS KIND OF SURGERY IS FOR SOMEONE WHO WAS BORN WITH EITHER TWO GENITALS OR NONE, THUS ACTUALLY NEEDING THE SURGERY.

CHER DID A VERY BAD JOB RAISING HER CHILDREN

The world has become very screwy…there is more wrong with our race than we (you) generally believe

TO SHOEFREAK, CAN’T WAIT TILL YOU CROAK THEN WE ALL CAN SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE–YOU CANCER ON SOCIETY

do u realize what a difficult decision this must have been for chastity? the pain and the years of surgeries? she obviously never felt comfortable in her own skin and wants to live her life the way she was meant to. stop judging others and have sympathy and respect.

i don’t understand trangenderism; it boggles my brain. why would a woman want to change her outward appearance, to ‘look’ more like a man? (or vise versa) surely, being a butch **** would satisfy her INNER self, if she has a need to ‘look’ more like a man. why does she need to FUNCTION like a man? Do they have artificial peens attached? or do they just use strap-ons? and if they DO just use strap-ons, wouldn’t being a woman without boosoms be adequate enough for them to be able to act more like a man?…even ‘feel’ more like a man?

i admit it! i’m very niave. but i just CAN’T understand, for the life of me, why somebody who has been recognised as female since she was born , and who has LOOKED like a female (albeit, increasingly ‘dykie’, since she was a young adult) all her life, and is not ‘attracted’ to men - would want to BE one. i get the ‘mixed up hormones, since birth’ thing; i even accept that some lesbians prefer to be manlike dykes, but i don’t get THIS.

having said that, i must congratulate chaz on his brave decision to do SOMETHING about his quandry. a surgical and artificial change of gender is not to be sneezed at, it’s months, years of ’sex-changing’ drugs, culminating in the very complex surgery of ‘re-allignment’ of the sex organs. i wish somebody could explain the pschycology of it, because although chaz is finally going to become his ‘true’ self, and be more at peace with himself - there are going to be a host of many ‘ordinary’ people who are totally bamboozled and perplexedby this very public, inyaface ‘coming out’.

i must do some research on the subject. i would welcome a psychco-social explanation of this really interesting phenomenon. chaz could be a great spokesperson for the transgendered people of the world, he could explain the rough road of the ‘person in the wrong body’ syndrome to us very well., educate us about the special loneliness of being locked in the wrong body. (i can see a best seller coming out of this!) it’s said that ignorance breeds fear, but the publics fears can be allayed with some simple, but informative explanation.

i do wonder how cher, the gay icon, feels about this whole senario. did she unwittingly play a role in this dilemna of chaz? or is it, as they say, just another freak of nature? chastity was such a cutie pie of a young girl; i suspect that ‘chaz’ could tell a few hair raising tales about his walk through life, and his sadness and confusion must run very deep. but i suspect one thing, after reading all these comments re his decision! he will always be seen as a woman by a lot of ‘normal’, everyday people - regardless of all his ‘re-allignment’ and changed persona. but the best of luck to chaz - just because a lot of people don’t understand it, it’s not necessarily wrong. it’s possible, it’s been done before, and anyway, he’s not hurting a soul. well, maybe his mother and brother, but i think they”ll learn to live with it. they’ll have to!

i think that rejecting her nature is only going to cause her more problems than the ones she already has. it’s true that we´re nobody to judge but we have to start recognising what’s wrong or right and this girl is making a mistake and the only thing we can do is to pray for her and her mom. Because one thing is loving you daughter and another one is letting her do what she thinks its right or good for her… sorry for my english i’m mexican

The ignorance here is excusable, the idiocy, hatred and cruelty not.

Things you weren’t taught at school - there’s a thing called Intersex.

Meaning a body neither wholly male, nor wholly female. And technically, one person in 60 is Intersexed in one way or another, though it might take a lab test to show that.

Obvious Intersex conditions lead to obviously ambiguous bodies, where when the child is born the docs have no idea what sex to label the child.

Not-so-obvious ones like CAH or De La Chapelle syndrome result in men with the 46xx chromosomes normally only found in women. Or CAIS or Turner syndrome women with the 46xy chromosomes normally only found in men. Or men and (rarely) women with Kleinfelter syndrome, 47xxy chromosomes. Some of the men have fathered children. Some of the women have given birth.

There’s even people with 5ARD or 17BHDD syndromes, who look female at birth, but get a “natural sex change” and masculinise later in life. Quite normal in species such as Clownfish and Groupers, rare in humans though. But yes, it happens.

Chromosomes are not a reliable guide to sex, just a really good indicator, right most of the time. Not all. Nothing magical about them.

Until recently we didn’t know just how different male and female brains were. But autopsies show distinct differences, even at the cellular level. fMRI images show that there’s large differences in the way men and women think. Not news to those who have read “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”, but now we have the proof, and even know why.

Transsexuality is a form of Intersex - though until quite recently, we weren’t sure of this, and (like stomach ulcers) was originally thought to be the result of a mental illness. Now we know the Helicobacter organism is responsible for ulcers, and that Transsexuality is a congenital anomaly, like having a cleft palate.

I’m over-simplifying, but it’s caused by something going slightly wrong in the womb. The brain develops along one line, say male, the rest of the body (to a greater or lesser degree) along another line, say female.

Chaz thinks, feels, smells and hears like a man. And that’s different from the way women think, feel, smell and hear. This isn’t a matter of opinion, it’s a matter of observable fact, determinable by experiment.

As was said in an article in ArtzeZeitung, the German Physician’s Journal : “Radiologists can now confirm what transsexuals report - that they feel “trapped in the wrong body” - on the basis of the activation of the brain when presented with erotic stimuli. There is obviously a biological correlation with the subjective feelings.”

We still are not completely sure why a male-pattern brain always leads to a male gender identity. We have some good theories, but apart from observing the fact that it always does, no exceptions, this is an area we don’t know much about.

What it means though is that Chaz is a man. And was a boy when he was young, no matter what he looked like. No matter what he looks like now.

Transsexuality is hideously uncomfortable. Imagine if you woke up with a body that looked like your boyfriend? About half suicide, yes it *does* feel that bad, perverse, awful, and terribly terribly *wrong*.

Trying to cure this with psychotherapy is like trying to cure a cleft palate through psychotherapy. You may be able to make the patient more comfortable with their condition, but that’s about it, and you won’t do anything about the underlying physical cause.

God may not make mistakes, but if not, he intends some babies to be born with no eyes, or malformed hearts, or cleft palates, or transsexuality.

Just as we can cure someone with a cleft palate by surgical reconstruction - even if it’s not perfect - we can change a transsexual person’s body to match their brain. Changing the brain is beyond us, like trying to mend a computer with a flint axe. There are also ethical problems, you’d be essentially killing the old person and making a new one from the remains, just to make other people feel more comfortable about the situation.

For women, hormones don’t do much,. but surgery works well. For men, hormones work brilliantly, but the surgery is imperfect. Many guys don’t like the $120,000 price and 30% success rate. They opt for breast reduction surgery (as do men with gynacamastea), and possibly a hysterectomy and metoidaplasty. Male hormones cause things to grow, you see. Maybe as big as your thumb. Some don’t see the need, and it’s a pretty private matter that others have no right to know.

This stuff isn’t taught in high school. It’s not even taught much in med school - I know, I’ve been called on to lecture to medical and psych students on the subject. Ignorance of it is understandable.

The bigotry, the hatred, the malice and spite, the insults and invective - less so. No matter what sex or gender or shape or colour you are, work on being decent human beings first and foremost, OK?

from a pretty little girl to a fat ugly man…