Becoming Chaz [HD]

Putting A Celebrity Face On Gender Transitioning--A Strong And Personal Doucumentary
"Becoming Chaz" is certainly one of higher profile documentary efforts to be released in the last year. Promoted extensively in the media by Oprah Winfrey (its television premiere was on her network) and Rosie O'Donnell, the film tells the personal story of Chastity Bono as she goes through gender reassignment surgery to become a man. It's an intriguing subject handled with candor. Putting a celebrity face on the issue certainly might make the topic more visible to those unaccustomed to such things and, in my mind, a little education and mind expansion is always good! I don't think that I have to say that Chastity (now Chaz) Bono is the offspring of Sonny Bono and Cher and has always been reluctantly in the spotlight. Her trials and tribulations have been documented by the press though the years, and it seems that this documentary was an effort to put this life changing story out to the public on her own terms. In as much, this is a successful exploration of the psychological...

Touching, honest and heart opening
Interesting documentary about Chastity Bono's sex change to become Chaz
Bono. It deals well with the complexities of life for both the
transgendered, and for the children of very famous people.

Quite touching and informative, it makes the still uneasy and confusing
(for many) subject of sex re-assignment far more human, and
understandable on both a technical (how does it work?) and - more
important - emotional level.

It also doesn't shy away from the hard parts (e.g. the difficult
personality changes brought on in Chaz by his intense hormone therapy).
Chaz is allowed to look self-centered, and even like a jerk at times,
without it impeding on our sympathy or identification. He's just a
person, like all of us, which is the whole point.

While the film-making itself can be uneven, this is the kind of film
that helps people open their hearts and minds to those who seem
'different'. And that is always...

Awesome
I'm a 39 year old FTM and learned a lot by watching Becoming Chaz. I have been on T for over 2 years but found this to be very helpful.

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