How Cher's daughter became her son
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/04/26/how-cher%E2%80%99s-daughter-became-her-son/ (http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/04/26/how-cher%E2%80%99s-daughter-became-her-son/)
4/26/11
by Brian D. Johnson
It's the feel-good sex-change movie of the year, the story of a child-star princess who becomes a transsexual poster boy. For a certain generation, Chastity Bono will always be the adorable blond child who goofed around with her iconic parents on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour in the '70s. Pushed onto the stage at the age of two, she grew up trapped in a showbiz fantasy world. She also grew up as a boy trapped in a girl's body, a body she hated since puberty. Now, at the age 42, Chastity is Chaz. In 2008, Bono decided to undergo gender transition with hormone injections and surgery. And he elected to do it on camera. The resulting documentary, Becoming Chaz—which will show at Toronto's Hot Docs festival next week before airing on Oprah Winfrey's OWN network in May—is an intimate portrait of a stranger-than-fiction family that just got stranger.