People Mag Values P.C. Over Factual Correctness: Chastity Bono Is Now 'He' Becau

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People Mag Values P.C. Over Factual Correctness: Chastity Bono Is Now 'He' Because 'He' Says So

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/06/22/people-mag-values-p-c-over-factual-correctness-chastity-bono-now-he-beca
Tim Graham
6/22/09

In its latest edition (dated June 29), People magazine piled up the praise for Chastity Bono's decision to be "Chaz," declaring herself to be a male. This leads to the kind of journalism that ignores all the hard-to-obscure physiological facts and goes with the feelings of the celebrity it's celebrating:

(Transgendered people believe they were born as the wrong sex, so except in quotes, PEOPLE will refer to Chaz as 'he,' even when referring to past events, to reflect what Bono considers his true gender.)