It's always the boobs
Style Observer
Sharon Leach
Sunday, May 15, 2011
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifestyle/It-s-always-the-boobs_8793939Gender transitioning is an issue that has always made me uncomfortable. Maybe I'm simply not one of those enlightened types who understand the fluidity of gender. To reassign one's gender, I always felt, was to simply be playing God. If the divine design was for me to be female, wasn't I then flying in the face of God to go to the extent of an operation to become a man? But hearing Chaz Bono talk about hating his woman's boobs, I realised that he'd seriously been in the wrong body. That's what sold me on his claim to feeling like he didn't fit in. "Why not just continue being a lesbian, Chaz?" I kept shouting at the TV screen. Why go to the trouble of becoming a man in order to be in a relationship with a girl? (His long-time girlfriend is still with him.)
But, as he tells it, it's not simply about an attraction to women. He feels like he was actually meant to be a man who's attracted to women. Two of the things that had to go were the breasts. I know no woman who would willingly lop off her breasts and celebrate their loss.
