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Transition Becoming Who I Was Always Meant to Be

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ISBN-10: 0452298008

ISBN-13: 9780452298002

Edition: 2012

Authors: Chaz Bono, Billie Fitzpatraick

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The New York Times bestseller that asks: What happens on the journey from self-doubt to self-acceptance?Imagine knowing, for decades, that the person you are and the body you inhabit don’t match up. Imagine pushing that feeling down so deep that you convince yourself, for years, that it doesn’t even exist. Imagine the havoc wreaked by such a secret.Now, imagine living this life under the scrutiny of the public eye.Chaz Bono has lived this life. We first met him as Chastity, the darling girl on stage with her parents, Sonny and Cher. Then, we knew her as an out lesbian and gay activist. Through all of this, Chaz was plagued by a nagging feeling that he wasn’t living the life meant for him.…    
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Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/29/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 266
Size: 5.35" wide x 7.99" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Chastity Bono is the entertainment and media director of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). In 1996 she became the National Coming Out Project spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay and lesbian political organization. Chastity Bono was born in Los Angeles on March 4, 1969 to the entertainers Sonny and Cher. She attended the High School of Performing Arts in New York and spend a year at New York University. Bono was a writer and spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign, and also became the Entertainment Media Director for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. She currently writes for The Advocate. Bono wrote Family Outing, a book…    

I experienced another incredible moment of clarity about myself. I understood for the first time that I couldn't focus on how others were going to react if I transitioned. I could not possibly control their reactions, their feelings, or their behaviors toward me. I had been so consumed with not upsetting anyone, but I could not continue deferring my own needs. Now I accepted that these people were all adults. It wasn't my job to make them okay; they had to make themselves okay with me. Which meant that the only person really in my way was myself.