Warren Beatty's Transgender Son: Chaz Bono Hates Women, Poor Rep For Trans Community
Posted on Nov 17, 2011 @ 06:30PM
By Adam S. Levy,
Radar Staff Writer
Chaz Bono's media tours, reality show and widely-seen stint on Dancing with the Stars have made him the world’s most well-known transgender advocate, but RadarOnline.com has learned the daughter-turned-son of Cher doesn't have a fan in Stephen Ira, the transgender son of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening.
Stephen, 19, (who was born a girl named Kathlyn) writes a blog titled Super Mattachine in which he identifies himself as "a gay trans man for whom both identities are equally important, a white anti-racist, a feminist, and a poet."
He went on to express that Chaz “has appointed himself as the representative of a group of people who are not all like him. He has said misogynistic... things about gender. I take particular issue with his comments on trans embodiment and on women."
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Stephen said he was infuriated when Chaz told the New York Times that being transgendered is essentially having a “mismatched” brain and body, akin to a “birth defect like a cleft palate.”
"I do not have a birth defect. If you feel like you have a birth defect, fine. That’s how you feel. Go feel that,” Stephen wrote.
“Do not put it onto me. Do not define me that way, and do not define other trans people that way unless they claim that label.
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"It’s beyond that, though. Chaz is a misogynist. He is a trans man who seems to believe that his female-assignedness and his female socialization makes him immune from being a misogynist, and he is manifestly wrong."
He continued, "This man doesn’t represent our community... The next time you hear Chaz’s name brought up in a conversation about trans issues, point out the things he’s said about surgery, ‘birth defects,’ and women.
“Because I don’t want a single person thinking this guy is the best of us."
Fun fact: Chaz's mother Cher dated Stephen's father Warren in 1962.
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The Daily Juice
I don't understand transgender or homosexuality, because I'm not either. I also no better than to PRETEND to understand. Let God be God and leave people alone. I thought Chaz was lovely on DWTS; Bruno was an idiot.
Posted Fri, 11/18/2011 - 2:16pm
First off, Chastity is not a dude. She's an obese, vile female who is mocking God. A deviant degenerate who has chosen a filthy path just for attention and because she grew herself so large, she can't compete with regular sized women. Period.
Posted Fri, 11/18/2011 - 7:47am
just another person who for whatever reason has to make people listen all about their sexuality and make people accept it....some people change their hair color and then there are people that hate the sex they are which is a big hate
Posted Fri, 11/18/2011 - 7:37am
love the article and I agree with Stephen a lot. why no coverage on First African American Transgender to write memoir In USA Toni D. Newman..Lets show all sides of the transgender life, black and white, good and bad, celebrity kids or not.
Posted Fri, 11/18/2011 - 2:58am
Wait. Warren Beatty and Anette Benning produced a transgender daughter/son? Yikes. Is that why Warren never ran for public office?
Posted Fri, 11/18/2011 - 12:43am
Wrong. They are not "produced" -- it's a vile and degenerate choice to mock God, especially publicly. Perhaps, like homosexuals, it stems from self-hatred and hatred of God. All choices.
Posted Fri, 11/18/2011 - 7:56am
Transgender is the new botox in Hollywood.
Posted Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:38pm
Chaz - and Cher - have also made homophobic comments.
Posted Thu, 11/17/2011 - 7:55pm
When?
Posted Fri, 11/18/2011 - 1:34am
After Chaz got booted from DWTS. Cher referred to Bruno waving around his "fairy arms" and Chaz said something about Bruno being threatened by a real man.
Posted Fri, 11/18/2011 - 7:43am