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Jenice Armstrong: Chaz Bono consulted with Bala Cynwyd physician Sherman Leis before sex-change surgery

By Jenice Armstrong
Philadelphia Daily News
Daily News Columnist

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Of course, gender dysmorphia isn't contagious. And Bono has lots of local fans rooting for him, among them Dr. Sherman Leis, an internationally known expert in gender reassignment surgery who met Bono last year at the Southern Comfort Conference, which focuses on the transgender community. That's how Leis wound up being featured in Bono's recent documentary, "Becoming Chaz," which aired earlier this year on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network.

After Leis' speech at the conference, the two chatted.

"I did sort of a mini-consult with him there," Leis told me. "Unbeknownst to me, he was sitting in the audience listening to my lecture on female-to-male top and bottom surgery, female-to-male gender reassignment surgery. He had some people with him who were taping the entire lecture. After my talk, I met Chaz, who had some questions about some of the things that I spoke about."