Chaz Bono changes gender in the spotlight with surprising grace

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Chaz Bono changes gender in the spotlight with surprising grace
Sarah Hampson
From Thursday's Globe and Mail
Published Wednesday, May. 18, 2011 4:32PM EDT

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In an ironic twist of fate, he lives up to the virtues implied by his original name, the one he hates, and not just because he was a girl.

Chastity.

"I always hated that name," Chaz Bono says. "I'm happy it's gone."

Still, there is one overriding quality to the exchanges he has in conversation about his new book, Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man, and the documentary, Becoming Chaz, an astonishing and brutally honest film, that calls it to mind.