Chaz Bono (FtM) on GMA -- OUTSTANDING Interview!!

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What a wonderful interview by a wonderful person and activist for transgender acceptance! Good Morning America ("GMA") is a workday morning news-magazine show in the U.S. with a large viewership. It's great to see such a sympathetic interview on this, the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGr8vl0vlfg

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At last

"Gender is between the ears, not between the legs."

Well said, Chaz, and thank you GMA for handling this in a sensitive and non-sensational way.

Susie

Only have a modem connection

... so I am not attempting to view it at the time of this comment but I seriously wonder if not for his celebrity status how he would be treated, especially from within the lesbian community he came from; a lesbian community who has some heavy duty prejudice against trans-lesbians.

His experience is obviously different then for all the MtF sisters out there. For us, the muggles consider it a drop in status whereas becoming a man is the opposite. It is going to be a long time, if ever, that being trans will just be consider a part of regular life and not mere fodder for people's prejudices.

Kim