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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. "

Chaz Bono

Women

Strong

Realize

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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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Always

Child

" In school I related to boys. "

Chaz Bono

School

" 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. "

" There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate. "

Chaz Bono

Body

People

" Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid. "

" 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. "

Chaz Bono

Because

Woman

" 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 don't have the luxury of doing things privately. "

" I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life. "

" I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff. "

" As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender. "

" When I was really little, it was very clear to me that I felt like a boy, and my friends were all boys. "

Chaz Bono

Boy

Little

" I was never religious. "

Chaz Bono

Religious

Never

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