Comments on: Talking to Your Kids About Chaz Bono http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2011/09/talking-to-your-kids-about-chaz-bono/ The latest Lifestyle news and blog posts from ABC News contributors and bloggers. Thu, 23 May 2013 13:19:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: shaed http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2011/09/talking-to-your-kids-about-chaz-bono/#comment-123522 shaed Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:54:00 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/?p=2821#comment-123522 "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." -Galatians 3:28, NIV Funny how all these people insist that God sees Chaz as a woman. God is as much against cochlear implants and pierced ears as he is (they are?) against gender transition. Which might be a lot, depending on your interpretation, but if so, you have a lot of condemning to do. “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
-Galatians 3:28, NIV

Funny how all these people insist that God sees Chaz as a woman. God is as much against cochlear implants and pierced ears as he is (they are?) against gender transition. Which might be a lot, depending on your interpretation, but if so, you have a lot of condemning to do.

]]> By: Diana http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2011/09/talking-to-your-kids-about-chaz-bono/#comment-28181 Diana Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:25:33 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/?p=2821#comment-28181 Gender issue is really difficult to explain especially to our kids. Maybe because their concept is really just male and female and something in between will cause confusion. It's just our duty as parents to slowly explain to them and let them understand about it. Gender issue is really difficult to explain especially to our kids. Maybe because their concept is really just male and female and something in between will cause confusion. It’s just our duty as parents to slowly explain to them and let them understand about it.

]]> By: Jim Doogan http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2011/09/talking-to-your-kids-about-chaz-bono/#comment-22941 Jim Doogan Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:14:46 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/?p=2821#comment-22941 I'm pretty confident that if we cut Chaz Bono open and looked inside we'd find that there's a girl in there, not a boy. I think it's pretty absurd for so called "experts" to advise parents to lie to their children so that folks like Chaz Bono can feel better about themselves. I'm not going to lose sleep over a person mutilating their own body and imbibing hormones to make themselves look however they want, but I'm certainly not going to pretend that such person actually is a different physical gender as a result. I recommend South Park Season 9, Episode 1for anybody trying to understand gender modification therapy. I’m pretty confident that if we cut Chaz Bono open and looked inside we’d find that there’s a girl in there, not a boy.

I think it’s pretty absurd for so called “experts” to advise parents to lie to their children so that folks like Chaz Bono can feel better about themselves. I’m not going to lose sleep over a person mutilating their own body and imbibing hormones to make themselves look however they want, but I’m certainly not going to pretend that such person actually is a different physical gender as a result. I recommend South Park Season 9, Episode 1for anybody trying to understand gender modification therapy.

]]> By: onexunited http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2011/09/talking-to-your-kids-about-chaz-bono/#comment-12471 onexunited Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:24:44 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/?p=2821#comment-12471 You call yourself human?! Transgender is when a HUMAN is born with the mind of one gender (male/female) and is born with the opposite genitalia (female/male). Transgender people do not choose that life. AND IF YOU'RE SO STUPID TO THINK IT'S A CHOICE! Then ask yourself this: "Why would someone choose a life in which they suffer EVERYDAY because their brain gender doesn't match their physical genitalia? Why would someone choose a life when they know people like you, who are so ready to hate your fellow humanbeings, discriminate them for the way they are born. Oh, since you're not educated on humans, I guess you wouldn't know about fish that can change their gender or the other number of species that can change their gender(God created them as they are). So what you hate those animals too? Saying that it's not fair for Chaz to be on DWTS or that it's wrong, would be like the majority of the World being transgender and telling biological-straight people "sorry, you're different and we 'choose' not to accept you for the way you were born". But no, a transgender person would never say that because of the bullsh!t that they deal with daily. If you ever get to know a transgender person (you most likely have and don't know it), they are some of the nicest, understand people that you'll ever meet. They know what it's like to suffer through a war between who they truely are and what we see of them. If you can call yourself human at all, you would have some compassion and understanding for your fellow brothers and sisters on this Earth. We are all human last time I checked. We are all different and that's what makes us who we are. That is why your partents love you. That is why your friends love you. That is why people love you. For your differences. Grow up and deal with a bigger issue like the rapist and child molesters living down your street. People who have actually hurt other people. I think Chaz is brave and HE is an amazing person for everything that he has done. Don't you dare tell people to read the Bible when obviously you haven't done the same. Last time I read the Bible, God teaches us to love everyone. ALL OF OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. No matter if they are black, white, crippled, healed, transgender or bio-straight. So because people are throwing the "God and Bible" card around, I'll teach you about the Bible and my God. Since you judge others, here is one just for you: James 2:12-13 "So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty. For judgement is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgement." And you know what I pray for you. I pray that God will heal your soul and take the devil from your side. See what a true believer does. I helped you, prayed for you and not once did I hate you for who you are. :) You call yourself human?! Transgender is when a HUMAN is born with the mind of one gender (male/female) and is born with the opposite genitalia (female/male). Transgender people do not choose that life. AND IF YOU’RE SO STUPID TO THINK IT’S A CHOICE! Then ask yourself this: “Why would someone choose a life in which they suffer EVERYDAY because their brain gender doesn’t match their physical genitalia? Why would someone choose a life when they know people like you, who are so ready to hate your fellow humanbeings, discriminate them for the way they are born. Oh, since you’re not educated on humans, I guess you wouldn’t know about fish that can change their gender or the other number of species that can change their gender(God created them as they are). So what you hate those animals too? Saying that it’s not fair for Chaz to be on DWTS or that it’s wrong, would be like the majority of the World being transgender and telling biological-straight people “sorry, you’re different and we ‘choose’ not to accept you for the way you were born”. But no, a transgender person would never say that because of the bullsh!t that they deal with daily. If you ever get to know a transgender person (you most likely have and don’t know it), they are some of the nicest, understand people that you’ll ever meet. They know what it’s like to suffer through a war between who they truely are and what we see of them. If you can call yourself human at all, you would have some compassion and understanding for your fellow brothers and sisters on this Earth. We are all human last time I checked. We are all different and that’s what makes us who we are. That is why your partents love you. That is why your friends love you. That is why people love you. For your differences. Grow up and deal with a bigger issue like the rapist and child molesters living down your street. People who have actually hurt other people. I think Chaz is brave and HE is an amazing person for everything that he has done.

Don’t you dare tell people to read the Bible when obviously you haven’t done the same. Last time I read the Bible, God teaches us to love everyone. ALL OF OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. No matter if they are black, white, crippled, healed, transgender or bio-straight. So because people are throwing the “God and Bible” card around, I’ll teach you about the Bible and my God. Since you judge others, here is one just for you: James 2:12-13 “So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty. For judgement is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgement.” And you know what I pray for you. I pray that God will heal your soul and take the devil from your side. See what a true believer does. I helped you, prayed for you and not once did I hate you for who you are. :)

]]> By: karen http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2011/09/talking-to-your-kids-about-chaz-bono/#comment-12031 karen Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:29:08 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/?p=2821#comment-12031 sorry - posted before finished: There ARE natural causes in the enviornment, in the surroundings of a mother to be, and many other reasons that a fetus can have what is called "confused differentiaton" . Instead of thinking this person, Chaz Bono, CHOSE to make this decision to become a man, you are uninformed, and need to educate yourselves to some of the REAL causes of what this represents. No one would "choose" to go through this process without a real reason to do so. This is NOT an easy process. I cannot imagine the courage it took for Chasity Bono - to address both on a personal level and a larger view - to begin this process. God - has NO place in this discussion - the problem many are having with this: MAN has decided to judge - Not God. This is nothing more that mortal men - wanting to corrupt scripture to bend to some dogmatic moral will. IT is ONLY God's Job to judge - not yours, not mine - Only man would prevert scripture, or some made up moral code to make this an issue - that really does NOT concern anyone. There IS nothing wrong - with a human being seeking their greatest good - and isn't that what a Loving God wants for all of his children? sorry – posted before finished: There ARE natural causes in the enviornment, in the surroundings of a mother to be, and many other reasons that a fetus can have what is called “confused differentiaton” . Instead of thinking this person, Chaz Bono, CHOSE to make this decision to become a man, you are uninformed, and need to educate yourselves to some of the REAL causes of what this represents. No one would “choose” to go through this process without a real reason to do so. This is NOT an easy process. I cannot imagine the courage it took for Chasity Bono – to address both on a personal level and a larger view – to begin this process. God – has NO place in this discussion – the problem many are having with this: MAN has decided to judge – Not God. This is nothing more that mortal men – wanting to corrupt scripture to bend to some dogmatic moral will. IT is ONLY God’s Job to judge – not yours, not mine – Only man would prevert scripture, or some made up moral code to make this an issue – that really does NOT concern anyone. There IS nothing wrong – with a human being seeking their greatest good – and isn’t that what a Loving God wants for all of his children?

]]> By: karen http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2011/09/talking-to-your-kids-about-chaz-bono/#comment-12021 karen Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:21:25 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/?p=2821#comment-12021 Why don't we tell them the REAL truth? Like that ALL fetus's are FEMALE, until 3 months old? how about that if the mother is exposed to any molecular structure which mimics the female hormone estrogen - that molecule can attach to real hormones causing structural damage at the cellular level - like DDT did, or PCP's, or SOY? That male and femal brains are ACTUALLY PHYSICALLY different - that changing molecules on the cellular leval can confuse the differeintiation of cells in the fetus? That this can actually cause the male organs NOT to drop? That a female can physcially BE a MALE? Only this is disguised because of the celluar damage to the fetus? Did your Mom use BUG spray? Work around fertilizer's in the garden? Eat Soy? Take hormone pills like BIRTH CONTROL? Take pills to stop breast milk development? Are you DSS Baby? Why don’t we tell them the REAL truth? Like that ALL fetus’s are FEMALE, until 3 months old? how about that if the mother is exposed to any molecular structure which mimics the female hormone estrogen – that molecule can attach to real hormones causing structural damage at the cellular level – like DDT did, or PCP’s, or SOY? That male and femal brains are ACTUALLY PHYSICALLY different – that changing molecules on the cellular leval can confuse the differeintiation of cells in the fetus? That this can actually cause the male organs NOT to drop? That a female can physcially BE a MALE? Only this is disguised because of the celluar damage to the fetus? Did your Mom use BUG spray? Work around fertilizer’s in the garden? Eat Soy? Take hormone pills like BIRTH CONTROL? Take pills to stop breast milk development? Are you DSS Baby?

]]> By: Stephanie http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2011/09/talking-to-your-kids-about-chaz-bono/#comment-11971 Stephanie Sun, 04 Sep 2011 08:56:18 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/?p=2821#comment-11971 It never fails to amaze me how uneducated, naive, and narrow people are. So disappointed in humanity right now. I wake up every morning and cannot imagine not being aligned in body and mind, which is why it is easy to understand why people who identify as trans would want to also have that same sense of alignment. I see many have weighed in that Mr. Bono should have sought help mentally, but by god-logic, shouldn't we just leave all of ourselves alone because mind and body were given to us as-is for a reason? I'm guessing if you were granted a depressive brain, you might irk god by using therapy and drugs because apparently, he doesn't like it when you try to fix yourself for the betterment of your happiness as you might be derailing his plan for you. And what's with the shell of the human being considered more important than what's on the inside of the human being? Doesn't that run contrary to biblical teaching, or did I miss the section where Vogue weighs in on how important your physical appearance is to god? Or maybe the idea of the sacred wang being cut off by MTF's is infuriating because aren't we all supposed to aspire to be male, and isn't that some sort of an insult or something? And maybe FTM's get so much grief because how dare a biological female think she is good enough to wield the sacred wang as a male? Humans get breast implants, braces, butt implants, prosthetics, amputate limbs when necessary, and do all sorts of things to their body in the name of feeling better about themselves both mentally and physically. Apparently, it's only bad though when a person alters their body out of the socially constructed gender binary box. Genitalia isn't a better or worse part of the human body deserving of more or less respect than say, an arm. Really people, if god was going to be grossed out by anything, it would be liposuction. And no one ever says anything about those people possibly going to hell. It never fails to amaze me how uneducated, naive, and narrow people are. So disappointed in humanity right now. I wake up every morning and cannot imagine not being aligned in body and mind, which is why it is easy to understand why people who identify as trans would want to also have that same sense of alignment. I see many have weighed in that Mr. Bono should have sought help mentally, but by god-logic, shouldn’t we just leave all of ourselves alone because mind and body were given to us as-is for a reason? I’m guessing if you were granted a depressive brain, you might irk god by using therapy and drugs because apparently, he doesn’t like it when you try to fix yourself for the betterment of your happiness as you might be derailing his plan for you. And what’s with the shell of the human being considered more important than what’s on the inside of the human being? Doesn’t that run contrary to biblical teaching, or did I miss the section where Vogue weighs in on how important your physical appearance is to god? Or maybe the idea of the sacred wang being cut off by MTF’s is infuriating because aren’t we all supposed to aspire to be male, and isn’t that some sort of an insult or something? And maybe FTM’s get so much grief because how dare a biological female think she is good enough to wield the sacred wang as a male? Humans get breast implants, braces, butt implants, prosthetics, amputate limbs when necessary, and do all sorts of things to their body in the name of feeling better about themselves both mentally and physically. Apparently, it’s only bad though when a person alters their body out of the socially constructed gender binary box. Genitalia isn’t a better or worse part of the human body deserving of more or less respect than say, an arm. Really people, if god was going to be grossed out by anything, it would be liposuction. And no one ever says anything about those people possibly going to hell.

]]> By: Silena http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2011/09/talking-to-your-kids-about-chaz-bono/#comment-11871 Silena Sun, 04 Sep 2011 08:04:35 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/?p=2821#comment-11871 Swoosie I totally agree with your comment. GOD IS THE ONLY ONE TO JUDGE!!!! The people who sit there and constantly go on about Christian this and Christian that are the same people who sit in church and talk about how you should not smoke, drink or curse and yet are the first ones out of church who light up and have a flask in their pocket. Hypocritial people. Yes I believe in GOD, but I am in total agreement with Swoosie in the fact that GOD wants us to live our lives, not be fearful of it. In the end, HE is the only one we truly have to answer to and when it comes time to meet our maker, that will be done. Get a life people, deal with your own issues and leave other people to their own. Grow up. You are the same people who would disown your children if they came home one day and said they were gay. Now that's a sin in itself. Swoosie I totally agree with your comment. GOD IS THE ONLY ONE TO JUDGE!!!! The people who sit there and constantly go on about Christian this and Christian that are the same people who sit in church and talk about how you should not smoke, drink or curse and yet are the first ones out of church who light up and have a flask in their pocket. Hypocritial people. Yes I believe in GOD, but I am in total agreement with Swoosie in the fact that GOD wants us to live our lives, not be fearful of it. In the end, HE is the only one we truly have to answer to and when it comes time to meet our maker, that will be done. Get a life people, deal with your own issues and leave other people to their own. Grow up. You are the same people who would disown your children if they came home one day and said they were gay. Now that’s a sin in itself.

]]> By: Silena http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2011/09/talking-to-your-kids-about-chaz-bono/#comment-11861 Silena Sun, 04 Sep 2011 07:58:02 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/?p=2821#comment-11861 People in glass houses should not throw stones. We are all sinners regarding something. Ok so those who are disgusted by Chaz' decision, you are entitled to your opinion. It's your opinion and leave it at that. Does not mean that everyone in the world agrees with you or even wants to hear from you. If you are disgusted by it, then dont watch the program. I for one commend him on his decision. He never felt right as a girl even from a little age and now he is happy. Happier than he has ever been it appears. Leave the man alone. Don't you have anything better to do than to sit back and judge people. I am sure there are things in your closet that you would not want to be judged on - Chaz had the guts and glory to not keep it in the closet. People in glass houses should not throw stones. We are all sinners regarding something. Ok so those who are disgusted by Chaz’ decision, you are entitled to your opinion. It’s your opinion and leave it at that. Does not mean that everyone in the world agrees with you or even wants to hear from you. If you are disgusted by it, then dont watch the program. I for one commend him on his decision. He never felt right as a girl even from a little age and now he is happy. Happier than he has ever been it appears. Leave the man alone. Don’t you have anything better to do than to sit back and judge people. I am sure there are things in your closet that you would not want to be judged on – Chaz had the guts and glory to not keep it in the closet.

]]> By: Rsavola http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2011/09/talking-to-your-kids-about-chaz-bono/#comment-11771 Rsavola Sun, 04 Sep 2011 07:15:09 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/?p=2821#comment-11771 Is this a joke!? Is this a joke!?

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